A 2013 prison hunger strike in California led to a dramatic decline in the use of solitary confinement. More than a decade ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prisons are not social dustbins, yet many societies continue to treat them as such. Prisons have drifted away from the ...