An incarcerated woman in a Texas prison is being kept in isolation and punished for talking to other women about abortion, The Nation reported on Tuesday. The punishment was doled out mid-April, ...

Story by Maxine Bernstein, oregonlive.com • 27m 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 ...

Tommy Robinson is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence - Yui Mok/PA Tommy Robinson should have his 18-month prison sentence reduced as his segregation while in custody is having a ...

A Connecticut youth prison has agreed to eliminate use of isolation as a form of punishment as part of an agreement with the federal Justice Department, officials said. The Justice Department said ...

Rachel Hurt pleaded guilty in 2018 to charges that resulted in her classification as a sex offender which is complicating efforts to find a suitable place for her to live. (Kentucky State Police photo ...

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 ...

A New York environmental activist stuck in an extreme isolation unit for writing letters and publishing articles — and then re-jailed for writing about being put in that isolation unit in the first ...

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 ...