Lil Durk has spent more than four months in solitary confinement, a situation his legal team says stems from possession of an ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s webpage on restricted housing includes this query: “Does CDCR have solitary confinement?” The answer: “No.” With no further explanation.

An immigrant makes a call from his 'segregation cell' at the Adelanto Detention Facility in 2013. (John Moore / Getty Images) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used solitary confinement at its ...

He wasn’t sentenced to madness. But that’s what being isolated in a cell 23 hours a day did to him. Getty Images For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more ...

Teenagers in North Carolina’s juvenile justice system are routinely being locked alone in their rooms for as much as 23 to 24 hours a day, according to an ongoing federal lawsuit and advocates for ...

Despite finally opening a long-planned alternative to its old isolation cells this year, Oregon’s largest youth prison continues to use its 1950s-era Intervention Unit nicknamed the “dungeon” and has ...

Host Davey D sits down with psychiatrist and author Dr. Terry A. Kupers to dig into the realities—and rising urgency—of ending solitary confinement in 2025. Kupers defines solitary plainly: 22+ hours ...

It’s been a year since Imhotep Muhammad returned home from Dauphin County Prison after a jury acquitted him of the most serious charges that had him locked up for 26 months. The scars from that time, ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more ...