Yet, since 2020, about half of all suicides the prison system reported occurred in solitary confinement cells. This at a time when deaths by suicide in North Carolina prisons have increased in recent ...

The bill, currently under consideration in the Senate, seeks to make four crucial amendments to the structured intervention units regime ...

A recently released report details problems at Wisconsin prisons including high staff turnover, overcrowding and issues with solitary confinement.

A new report from Solitary Watch details systemic abuse in New York prisons, citing physical violence, deprivation of basic ...

Attorneys for a Bernalillo County woman have filed a lawsuit accusing New Mexico Corrections Department of breaking state law by holding her in solitary confinement for months in what she described as ...

In October, the Senate voted to send Tona’s Law, Bill S-205, to committee for study. It’s the latest push by the upper ...

Zachariah Bacote says he still doesn’t know why he was stabbed at Bertie Correctional Institution in January. He also can’t figure out why correctional officers put him, the victim of an attack, in ...

Across Bangladesh’s prisons, thousands of death row inmates live under the shadow of the noose. For most, execution never comes. Yet they remain in solitary confinement for years, even decades ...

Cincinnati imam Ayman Soliman, jailed by ICE, alleges he was held in solitary confinement for four days. Soliman claims the isolation was due to his attempt to practice his religion, while Butler ...

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...

Only a small portion of people incarcerated in North Carolina prisons end up in solitary confinement. About 5% of 31,767 inmates — or about 1,650 people — were in solitary on May 20, the state said.