California authorities have agreed to sharply limit the number of inmates held in isolation for long periods of time, a major development in the national debate about solitary confinement. The...
Criticism of the widespread practice in the United States of keeping prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement is growing because advocates and prisoners themselves have made it an issue. No place...
Criticism of the widespread practice in the United States of keeping prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement is growing because advocates and prisoners themselves have made it an issue. No place...
In a resolution that could have wide effects, California's prison system has agreed to change how it handles solitary confinement — and to review the cases of nearly 3,000 prisoners who are currently...
California will put an end to the practice of keeping prisoners in solitary confinement for decades because of gang affiliation, under a proposed legal settlement announced Tuesday. The settlement,...
Solitary confinement may be activists’ most successful battlefront in the growing war against mass incarceration. They scored another victory on Tuesday when they reached a “far-reaching settlement”...
On Tuesday, 10 California inmates succeeded in stopping the decades-long use of indefinite solitary confinement in the state's prison system. In a landmark settlement to a class-action suit they...
Marking a significant victory in the struggle to end solitary confinement in the United States, a landmark legal settlement filed in federal court on Tuesday effectively ends the practice of...
An organization representing prison and jail administrators said Wednesday that the policy of keeping tens of thousands of inmates in solitary confinement was a serious problem that needed to be...
