Geckos are known as solitary creatures, but according to some scientists, these little guys look out for one another. As you ...

A federal class action civil rights lawsuit has been filed challenging the routine use of solitary confinement against youth ...

The class action suit claims five facilities under the State Office of Children and Family Services “routinely and unlawfully ...

The new director of the federal Bureau of Prisons said Thursday that officials are reviewing why the number of inmates being held in so-called restrictive housing has climbed in recent months, ...

The lawsuit accuses the state Office of Children and Family Services of using solitary confinement to punish juveniles and compensate for staffing shortages ...

Protesters held dueling rallies outside New York City Hall Wednesday morning on solitary confinement, ahead of the City Council hearing on a bill that would change how the controversial practice is ...

Children as young as 12 are allegedly confined for weeks at a time with no education or human contact, a lawsuit claims.

In this election year, the debate about immigrants entering the U.S. has taken on renewed urgency. But it's also important to pay attention to the conditions faced by those already within U.S. borders ...

As the use of solitary confinement in immigration detention centers increases under the Biden administration, according to the federal data, some Democratic-aligned lawmakers are demanding an end to ...

Inmates held in solitary confinement live up to 23 hours of each day in a tiny cell with limited contact with other humans. The practice has been found to lead to adverse behavioral effects in inmates ...

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams is trying to have it both ways: supporting the use of solitary confinement in city jails without using the term and accepting the current mayoral administration’s ...

Isolation. Timeout. Lockdown. The hole. Solitary confinement goes by many names, and it can be employed as arbitrarily as the language used to define it. “There is no single standard for anything in ...