ICE tracks how many immigrants it sends to solitary confinement each month, but the data is messy and incomplete, a Lee ...

South Carolinian Randy Poindexter writes about the effects 16 years of solitary confinement had on him ahead of South Carolina’s planned execution of Mikal Mahdi, who spent months in solitary as a ...

Advocates say ICE isn't equipped to handle mental health crises in detention, relying on solitary confinement — and even ...

As Virginia legislators study the issue, faith groups point to evidence isolation is unfair and ineffective. Natasha White wants to remind Christians of Hebrews 13:3: “Remember those in prison as if ...

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 Intervention Unit nicknamed the “dungeon” and has ...

PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island abandoned the use of long-term solitary confinement in the 1840s after concluding that it led to mental instability, suicidal thoughts and derangement. That remained the ...

Texas prisoners living in solitary confinement are leading a hunger strike and risking starvation to highlight the cruelty they face on a daily basis — and that is only the most recent high-profile ...