“When we first walk onto the tier,” a hallway where prisoners are housed, “we’re usually met with the scent of body odor, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State Sen. Saud Anwar, co-chair of the state’s Public Health Committee, recently made a rare request to the state Department of ...

The Adelanto ICE Processing Center has significantly increased solitary confinement placements, with some detainees isolated ...

Kids in New York’s juvenile detention centers were placed in solitary confinement in tiny cells for up to 24 hours a day — some lacking fresh water and a bucket for a toilet — over minor infractions ...

A state judge in Albany granted a temporary injunction forcing New York State to fully implement a law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons after elements of the law were suspended ...

Honesty Bishop was attacked by her cellmate. Missouri prison officials deemed her sexually active and kept her in isolation for over six years. Honesty Bishop could hear the screams of other people in ...

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were arbitrary and capricious, while an Albany Supreme Court judge ruled that the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An inmate in solitary confinement at a California jail was refusing to leave his cell. The jailers' usual response: Send an "extraction team" of corrections officers to burst ...

On December 22, 2022, 51-year-old Lamont Mealy was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his roommate and was sentenced to serve life in prison at the Western Correctional Institution in ...