A transgender woman is suing the director of the Missouri Department of Corrections and several staff, alleging that she was placed in solitary confinement for six years because of her HIV status ...

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A 2019 study found that Black women comprise 42 percent of women in solitary detention yet only 21.5 percent of all female prisoners. A group of human rights lawyers wants the United Nations to ...

Women in prison, when compared with incarcerated men, often receive disproportionately harsh punishments for minor violations of prison rules, according to a report released Wednesday by a federal ...

A civil lawsuit filed by Nova Scotia resident Lisa Adams seeking damages from the federal government after being subjected to what amounts to torture in a Canadian correctional institution was settled ...

For decades, MDOC has regularly held incarcerated people in solitary confinement for weeks, months, and in some cases, years.

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 ...

Representatives Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman and others, introduced legislation to end the “inhumane” practice of solitary confinement in Federal Prisons. After years of activism and political power ...