New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams is trying to have it both ways: supporting the use of solitary confinement in city jails without using the term and accepting the current mayoral administration’s ...

As I woke up for my daily job as a prisoner at the Washington State Reformatory, I drank a cup of freeze-dried coffee and watched the local morning news. One story instantly caught my attention: The ...

In his celebrated memoir Just Mercy, lawyer Bryan Stevenson writes of the death penalty: “[The question] is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit” but instead, “do we ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ATLANTA — Sometimes, Pamela Winn isn’t sure how to connect with people, even those she loves, like her 9-month-old granddaughter. When the baby is in her ...

Hartford Correctional Center. Attempts to end the cash bail system in Connecticut, which some say is overly burdensome on the poor, have not been successful. Credit: Yehyun Kim / ctmirror.org Hartford ...

This is the first holiday season without my son, Brandon Rodriguez. Our family is broken. New York City’s jail’s use of solitary confinement killed Brandon. Days before his death in August, he was ...

Activists and at least one representative from the United Nations on Thursday said the United States has long been responsible for a dangerous export: The use of solitary confinement for incarcerated ...

Immigration detention centers are holding more people in solitary confinement than had been believed, and the practice is growing. New data show thousands more immigrants were held in solitary ...

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...