Solitary Confinement

While abuses inside an Alabama women's prison have made headlines, less attention has been paid to the activism and organizing by women inside.

Last July, 30,000 California prisoners went on hunger strike. Some have been released from solitary and correctional authorities continue a review process as a class-action lawsuit by prisoners goes …

Conditions in US prisons are far worse than those depicted in the Netflix hit, “Orange Is the New Black” - even rising to the definition of “torture” in many …

California has contracted with a private prison corporation to open a 260-bed women's prison. But will a new prison address the overcrowding and medical neglect facing the state's female …

Today, a federal judge allowed hundreds of California prisoners to join a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons when she granted the case class action status.

Nicole Guerrero's experience was downright horrific.

Across the United States and the world, there is an emerging movement calling for the end of solitary confinement.

The appearance of a cruelty-free execution has always been just that: a carefully-crafted appearance.

Shawki Ahmed Omar, an American-Jordanian prisoner who has been held without due process in Iraq for almost 10 years, has disappeared.

Even as it touts new initiatives to reduce the number of people it holds in solitary confinement, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) continues to quietly make headway on …