Virginia’s prisons have been fighting allegations that they callously lock away prisoners for years in solitary confinement.

North Carolina prisons have seen an uptick in suicides and people with mental health diagnoses among the ongoing use of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - In Death Penalty News this month, Randy Poindexter describes his experience with solitary confinement and ...

Forget sandy beaches and crowded theme parks – the most unforgettable spring break destination might just be a crumbling prison in Philadelphia where the walls quite literally talk back.

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg police captain James Myers during a multi-state crime ...

Between the ages of 14 and 17, Mikal spent over 1,800 hours in solitary confinement in Virginia — more than 75 days. At that ...

Solitary confinement can cause severe psychological impacts and the U.N. considers it torture. Yet prolonged isolation ...

The only regular time out of a cell was for a shower and solo exercise in another concrete room. Decades later ... They decided to protest long-term solitary confinement by organizing a hunger ...

Tony Ellis has sent correspondence to a number of ministers, government agencies and media outlets detailing the experiences of Prisoner A, who says he was punished with solitary confinement in ...

The bill was passed in recognition of overwhelming evidence of the harmful physical and mental health effects of solitary confinement. But shortly after it passed, the New York State Correctional ...

Kathy Hochul and the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) for what it describes as a blatantly illegal and dangerous rollback of hard-won protections under the ...