The Solitary Confinement Reform Act limits solitary confinement to the briefest term and under the least restrictive ...

Plaintiff David Meehan argues the state’s negligence in hiring and training led him to be repeatedly beaten, raped, and ...

Nearly 90% of incarcerated transgender people have been held in prolonged solitary confinement in prison, according to a ...

As one of the cruelest forms of punishment, solitary confinement causes lasting mental and physical harm, yet the United ...

Nearly 90 percent of transgender people in state prisons have been placed in solitary confinement at some point during their ...

A February report by the Vera Institute of Justice and Black & Pink highlights the many ways in which state prisons mistreat ...

Lawmakers received an update from officials at the Department of Correction regarding conditions at Wisconsin's two embattled ...

The strike at the Maine State Prison in Warren started Thursday morning and ended Saturday, according one prisoner.

Word Animal Protection experts talk with TravelPulse about identifying ethical wildlife activities when traveling.

Perhaps you can imagine punishments more to be feared than a lengthy prison sentence, but in a country that proscribes cruel and unusual punishment—except the death penalty—the only thing I ...

A U.S. Marine was freed from confinement after a charge of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl was dropped under a plea ...

Jailed Putin critic Ilya Yashin, an ally of the late Alexei Navalny, has reportedly been thrown into solitary confinement for ...