Amid renewed debate over the controversial practice, an archival FRONTLINE documentary offers a visceral portrait of life in solitary confinement at one maximum-security prison.

R. Kelly leaves a North Carolina prison’s Special Housing Unit after officials found no wrongdoing tied to a retired warden’s ...

From 1976: A psychology professor, testifying in a case brought by a Walla Walla prisoner, made an eyebrow-raising statement about prisoners held in isolation cells. “The consensus was that (isolation ...

How is it possible for a country to have its moral compass so broken that homosexuality and murder can feel the same?” ...

Attorneys allege mentally ill inmates in Arizona prisons are kept in isolation due to staff threats and violence, violating court orders.

For six years, Honesty Jade Bishop was held in solitary confinement in a Missouri prison after she was sexually assaulted by her cellmate. The Department of Corrections deemed that Bishop, a ...

Breivik's lawyer Oystein Storrvik argued that the isolation has rendered his client "mentally vulnerable". "I've become more radical. I was radical to start but these past five years I've become much ...

Story by Maxine Bernstein, oregonlive.com • 1w Despite finally opening a long-planned alternative to its old isolation cells this year, Oregon’s largest youth prison continues to use its 1950s-era ...

Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system—including near total isolation. This story was produced by Bolts and published in partnership ...

Dumbrell is suing the Governor of Portlaoise Prison, claiming that he is being housed in the “isolation block” of the prison ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) — An inmate at the Blair County Prison, who is accused of killing a neighbor and living with the body, ...