Office of Children and Family Services facilities are violating state regulations governing the treatment of children in ...

A federal class action civil rights lawsuit has been filed challenging the routine use of solitary confinement against youth ...

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 ...

Survey of people held in solitary confinement reveals its devastating psychological impact Part 1 of a series This two-part guest essay comes from Solitary Watch, a nonprofit watchdog organization ...

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 ...

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, ...

Over the past two decades, solitary confinement has moved out of the prison basement and into whole facilities built just for isolation. These... Over the past two decades, solitary confinement has ...

Zachariah Bacote says he still doesn’t know why he was stabbed at Bertie Correctional Institution in January. He also can’t figure out why correctional officers put him, the victim of an attack, in ...