Solitary confinement can cause severe psychological impacts and the U.N. considers it torture. Yet prolonged isolation ...

Unwise and unsafe,” DOC Commissioner Tom Schnell said about a bill to ban solitary confinement in Minnesota’s jails and ...

Jagtar Singh Johal's brother, Gurpreet Singh Johal, told an All Party Parliamentary Group on arbitrary detention on Wednesday ...

Opinion: Pace University professor Michael Mushlin says New York state prison systems need to reevaluate prison environments ...

Lawmakers claim they've received reports from parents and advocates of prolonged lockdowns, solitary confinement and a lack ...

Anthony Gay knows what it’s like to have his freedom restricted, to crave human interaction, and to feel despair. But he ...

A woman who spent 16 days in an extreme form of solitary confinement in a Nova Scotia prison is now suing the federal ...

Detained Scot Jagtar Singh Johal has been placed in solitary confinement in an Indian prison after he was acquitted on all ...