The Mary Davis Detention Home cannot place its residents in solitary confinement after a federal district court judge ruled Sept. 30 in favor of a group of teenage residents who accused Knox County of ...

A recent Physical Review Letters study presents a new model for quark star merger ejecta that could resolve whether these cosmic collisions generate ordinary matter or something different. The ...

Former Republican congressman George Santos has been held in solitary confinement with no windows for nearly 30 days, according to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who likened his prison conditions ...

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act Committee released recommendations to amend the law to make it easier to make ...

ALBANY — A committee that was formed in the wake of this year’s strike by New York correction officers to review a law limiting the use of solitary confinement in state prisons has recommended ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is sharing details on a committee’s proposed revisions to the HALT Act. That’s the policy that limits solitary ...

WASHINGTON — Use of solitary confinement in immigration detention is soaring under the Trump administration, according to a report published this week by Physicians for Human Rights using federal data ...

A conversation with incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell about his new book Ending Isolation. An inmate looks out of his cell in the the Special Management Unit, known as high-max at the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Solitary confinement is used in ICE detention facilities as a form of punishment or to protect certain at-risk ...

A new study warns that the number of immigrants being put in solitary confinement is increasing under the Trump administration. Getty Images/iStockphoto UPDATE: This article was updated the morning of ...

Immigration detention centers are holding more people in solitary confinement than had been believed, and the practice is growing. New data show thousands more immigrants were held in solitary ...

Imprisoned former Congressman George Santos says he’s been placed into solitary confinement following an unspecific death threat at FCI Fairton in New Jersey. The 37-year-old Republican is once again ...