Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, South Carolina kept me in solitary confinement. I was a young man before I was sent to solitary — angry, untreated and unwell.

One hundred and thirty-five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged the devastating effects of solitary confinement. In an 1890 ruling declaring that Colorado had improperly subjected a man ...

The new findings are critical to understanding what policies immigrants in ICE detention may be subject to, and in turn, will enable legal counsel to better defend immigrants who are subject to ...

The United Nations Committee Against Torture has condemned the United States for its use of solitary confinement and lack of data on the practice. Florida Senate Bill 1758 and House Bill 1061 ...

Solitary confinement in Malta is a short-term isolation from the rest of the prison inmates, which may be imposed as a punishment by a court order or following an offence against the prison ...

“Solitary confinement is torture—it doesn’t repair people, it breaks them, and just because someone is in prison, already paying the price of whatever action might have led them ...

A woman who spent 16 days in an extreme form of solitary confinement in a Nova Scotia prison is now suing the federal government for damages. In 2020, Lisa Adams and her lawyers successfully argue ...

Lisa Adams spent 16 days in an extreme form of solitary confinement, known as a dry cell, in a Nova Scotia prison in 2020. Now, the New Brunswick woman is suing the federal government for damages ...

Destroying my mind' His barrister, Alisdair Williamson KC, said that in February Robinson asked to be moved to open prison, stating: “The solitary confinement is destroying my mind.” ...

Of that massive number, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary confinement for at least 22 hours a day. Solitary confinement is the brutal practice of stuffing people into closet ...