A report from Yale Law School that questioned U.S. prison systems found that in the summer of 2021, nearly 50,000 men and women were held in solitary confinement in the U.S. As the Guardian reported, ...

Suicides in state prisons have soared in the last several years, and solitary confinement is a leading contributor, a new report claims. According to the new report from two groups advocating against ...

The illegal practices continued despite a judge’s order last year that corrections officials follow state law on the issue, a civil liberties group said in a court filing. By Hurubie Meko A year after ...

Prison agency seeks to dramatically narrow solitary confinement law Prison officials are using a novel legal reading to argue that the HALT Solitary Confinement Act doesn’t apply to units where most ...

New York teens held inside the state’s adolescent detention centers are routinely kept locked in cramped quarters without ...