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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Spotlight is a Fresno Bee series that digs into the high-profile local issues that readers care most about. Story idea? Email [email protected]. Detainees inside California’s largest ...

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday vetoed a bill banning most forms of solitary confinement in city jails. The bill was approved by the City Council in December. It does allow the Department of Correction to ...

A new report from the Physicians for Human Rights, the Peeler Immigration Lab, and Harvard Law School experts has found ICE placed more than 10,000 people in solitary confinement between April 2024 ...