Getty Images For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, South Carolina kept me in solitary confinement. I was a young man before I was ...

Approximately 15 to 20 percent of young residents are confined in 7-by-10-foot solitary confinement cells for 22 or 23 hours per day, Collins said. These children are often forced to spend their only ...

I’d been filming for four months in the punishment wing of the Maine State Prison when I asked an officer to lock me in a solitary confinement cell ... six feet wide and ten feet long.

In December 2024, ICE announced that it had issued policy updates for the use of solitary confinement cells for detained immigrants, however, it did not publicly release a copy of the updated policy ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for ...