Men never convicted of a crime denied reading, exercise or human contact. Peter Minich’s condition has deteriorated since spending 6,300 hours in solitary confinement, according to his mother, Joanne ...

Discover why punishment-based prisons fail, and how psychology offers a more humane and effective path to justice.

About 90 women from FCI Dublin who were transferred to a prison in Minnesota sobbed to attorneys, reporting they are repeatedly placed in lockdown and in solitary confinement for minor offenses. The ...

MBABANE, Swaziland— Eswatini's government said on Wednesday that it was holding five third-country nationals deported from the United States in isolated prison units under a deal with President Donald ...

For six years, Honesty Jade Bishop was held in solitary confinement in a Missouri prison after she was sexually assaulted by her cellmate. The Department of Corrections deemed that Bishop, a ...

For seven years, inmate Timothy Gumm lived in a 7-foot-by-13-foot cell with no outside air or sunlight and, for a long while, no contact with anyone other than a correctional officer who slid a food ...

Women who work at Oregon’s largest and most geographically isolated prison say they were reluctant to report misconduct by their colleagues, including groping and other unwanted sexual contact while ...

It said Okah will never plot a prison break, expressing confidence that he would “triumphantly walking out of the Kuje Prison gates as a free and vindicated man”. According to Okah's lawyers, First ...

ALBANY - Harvey Weinstein, currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault, has tested positive for COVID-19, according to multiple reports on Sunday. The disgraced film mogul, ...

She's trapped in an isolated prison cell with only a terrorist cellmate for company The cold-blooded mushroom killer spends up to 23 hours a day locked inside her cell with the only person for company ...

Breivik's lawyer Oystein Storrvik argued that the isolation has rendered his client "mentally vulnerable". "I've become more radical. I was radical to start but these past five years I've become much ...