There is a difference between loneliness (the imposition of social isolation) and aloneness (the choice of being alone), and thus the brain reacts in very different ways. Loneliness, or social ...

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 ...

Several years ago, Damascus James started exchanging letters with people in Texas prisons. That evolved into a project called Texas Letters, a collection of letters written by people living in ...

Have you heard of spilling the tea? It’s a slang term for sharing gossip, inside information, or exclusive details. It’s not just a conversation starter, but also a call to action. Today, I want to ...

South Carolinian Randy Poindexter writes about the effects 16 years of solitary confinement had on him ahead of South Carolina’s planned execution of Mikal Mahdi, who spent months in solitary as a ...

What happens to human beings when they are completely cut off from others and stripped of any rights or the ability to appeal their confinement? Sarah Shourd, a young American unjustly imprisoned by ...

In 2022, Gavin Newsom vetoed the California Mandela Act, a key piece of prison reform legislation that would have limited the use of solitary confinement to 15 consecutive days, and banned it ...

Across the country, the Biden administration is holding hundreds of immigrants in solitary confinement. With the president’s calls for the “toughest” border crackdown in U.S. history, these numbers ...

Five months into my eight-month solitary confinement and right before the Persian New Year, Nowruz, the guards put me in a new cell at the other end of the Evin prison high-security facility in Tehran ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A first-of-its-kind report released on Tuesday finally gave a clearer estimate of how many people experience solitary confinement ...