During a two-year stint in New York state prisons, Matthew Azzano reported on the ingenious way men in segregated housing units trade precious commodities such as snacks, stamps and soap. They tie ...

Erin Patterson’s existence inside a tiny cell at Melbourne’s all women’s maximum security prison has been described as ...

An inmate reads inside the Harris County jail, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Houston. An inmate stands inside the Harris County jail, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Houston. Inmates who have either just ...

Luigi Mangione is under monitoring in a 9-by-7-foot federal solitary-confinement cell in Brooklyn. On Monday, he may be moved to the same protective unit as Diddy and SBF, who are in the same jail. A ...

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 ...

A migrant woman spent more than a month in solitary confinement due to a language barrier, after she asked for feminine hygiene products and couldn’t understand officers’ English commands, according ...

Tammi Gregg and Donna Lieberman of the American Civil Liberties Union wrote a column in The Washington Post of April 29, 2021 about the “torture” of prolonged solitary confinement and referred to it ...