HOUSTON — A Houston-area jail has cut its use of solitary confinement in half nearly five years after investigators found an inmate needing mental health treatment was ignored for weeks in a filthy ...

The Washington State Department of Corrections has pledged to stop the use of solitary confinement in state prisons, in most cases. And the agency says it has made progress on that goal. But a recent ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – A new statewide report sheds light on the mental health impacts of solitary confinement in Washington. In 2023, the Department of Corrections pledged last year to reduce the use of ...

Attorneys for a Bernalillo County woman have filed a lawsuit accusing New Mexico Corrections Department of breaking state law by holding her in solitary confinement for months in what she described as ...

I first realized how important jail and prison are to individuals with serious mental illness when I noticed, early in my career, that my patients in community clinics were talking about time they had ...

We are witnessing the geometric expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in the community, the crowding of correctional facilities with ICE detainees, and the rapid construction of ...

Ian Manuel survived 18 years in solitary confinement, a practice classified by the United Nations as torture and strongly condemned by psychological organizations. When he was 13, Ian and a few older ...