The Statesman Journal spoke to one of five people suing the Oregon Department of Corrections for its solitary confinement ...

More than four years after Multnomah County auditors called for sweeping reforms at the county jail, a new report found that ...

A proposed class action lawsuit claims Oregon is subjecting prisoners to unconstitutional and inhumane conditions in solitary confinement.

Columbia Legal Services has filed a class‑action lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Corrections over what it ...

They can’t yet vote, but they’re not waiting to engage their elected representatives. A small group of local high school ...

Melania Brown, sister of Layleen Polanco, a trans woman who died in an isolated cell in Rikers Island jail complex, and Akeem Browder, brother of Kalief Browder, who was incarcerated in Rikers as a ...

Relatives of Kalief Browder and Layleen Polanco, who both died in solitary confinement in New York City, held a prayer, march, and rally in front of City Hall on June 7 to demand that Mayor Bill de ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections confined inmates in “dungeon-like conditions” in solitary confinement and refused to ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with activists Candie Hailey, who spent just over three years in solitary confinement, and Scott Paltrowitz about the long-term consequences of solitary confinement.

The United States leads the world in its use of solitary confinement, locking away in isolation more of its population than any other country. Every day, up to 48,000 inmates—or around 4% of the ...

Advocates almost succeeded this year in curbing the use of solitary confinement in California’s prisons and jails. The California Mandela Act, named after the long-imprisoned South African president, ...

An investigation found that nearly 75% of suicides in Mississippi prisons occurred in restrictive housing units. Many inmates who died by suicide had known histories of mental illness or previous self ...