solitary confinement
Obama and Supreme Court Tag Team on Juvenile Justice Reform
The president announced a ban on confining juveniles to solitary confinement a day after the nation's top court ruled that juveniles can challenge life sentences.
The Shocking, Painful Trauma of Being a Trans Prisoner in Solitary Confinement
Although the UN considers the practice torture, 85 percent of LGBT prisoners say they've been placed in solitary confinement, for months and often years. For inmates like Daisy Meadows, a trans woman incarcerated in a men's prison, isolation is used...
Immigrant Detainees Accuse US of Using Sleep Deprivation During Hunger Strike
US immigration officials allegedly woke up some detainees every 15 minutes and placed others in solitary confinement in response to a hunger strike that spread to at least 10 facilities nationwide.
New York Just Struck a Deal to Rein in Solitary Confinement in State Prisons
4,000 inmates are currently housed in six-by-ten-foot cells for 23 hours a day. A $62 million settlement and promised reforms should begin to change that.
The Peculiar Case of a Modern-Day Hermit
Does solitude destroy the human psyche, or does it allow us to see the world clearly?
Meditation Helped Me Survive Death Row and 19 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment
Since I couldn't leave, I had to find a way to change the energy there.
Albert Woodfox of the Angola Three Might Go on Trial for a Third Time
A judge had ordered the 68-year-old, who's been in solitary for most of his life, released from the Louisiana state prison known as Angola in June.
Deep Cover: What It Was Like Working as a Prison Guard at Sing Sing in the 1990s
Ted Conover discusses how little has changed in the 15 years since he infiltrated Sing Sing in order to write a book about the prison system.
What Happens When Inmates in Solitary Confinement Blow the Whistle on Their Abuse?
A group of inmates calling themselves the Dallas Six banded together and grew committed to bringing their prison's abusive conditions to light, even in the face of being confined there longer.
Photo Requests from Prisoners in Solitary Confinement
Over the past few years, Photo Requests from Solitary has invited men and women in solitary confinement to request a photograph of anything—real or imagined—and promised to find them an artist to make the image.
How to Repair the Criminal Justice System
We talked to leaders and activists spearheading prison reform to find out what we can do to fix our broken penal system.
No One Seems to Care About Prison Reform in Canada
Canada's prison problems include the over-incarceration of Aboriginal people, the mistreatment of mentally-ill inmates, cuts to rehabilitation programs, overcrowding, and double-bunking.