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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANITOWOC – The RUTH-Manitowoc group, in partnership with JOSHUA-Green Bay and ESTHER-Fox Valley, is hosting two events highlighting the impact of incarceration on a person. A news release from JOSHUA ...

A new and powerful particle detector just passed a critical test in its goal to decipher the ingredients of the early universe. The sPHENIX detector is the newest experiment at Brookhaven National ...

State Sen. Saud Anwar, co-chair of the state’s Public Health Committee, recently made a rare request to the state Department of Correction. Listening to concerns from the community about the long-term ...

A federal appeals court ruled against Rhode Island prison administrators for holding a man in solitary confinement for over a year. The ruling allows the inmate's lawsuit alleging cruel and unusual ...