A federal class action civil rights lawsuit has been filed challenging the routine use of solitary confinement against youth ...
Lil Durk has spent more than four months in solitary confinement, a situation his legal team says stems from possession of an ...
He wasn’t sentenced to madness. But that’s what being isolated in a cell 23 hours a day did to him. Getty Images For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more ...
Host Davey D sits down with psychiatrist and author Dr. Terry A. Kupers to dig into the realities—and rising urgency—of ending solitary confinement in 2025. Kupers defines solitary plainly: 22+ hours ...
Teenagers in North Carolina’s juvenile justice system are routinely being locked alone in their rooms for as much as 23 to 24 hours a day, according to an ongoing federal lawsuit and advocates for ...
It’s been a year since Imhotep Muhammad returned home from Dauphin County Prison after a jury acquitted him of the most serious charges that had him locked up for 26 months. The scars from that time, ...
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 Intervention Unit nicknamed the “dungeon” and has ...
A federal judge in San Diego has denied a request from attorneys in a class-action lawsuit to bar the Sheriff’s Office from ...
Sending love and respect to all of you. I salute your commitment to raising awareness on the hidden yet significant societal issue of isolation, especially in an environment where the current ...
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more ...
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. He wasn’t sentenced to madness. But that’s what being isolated in a cell 23 hours a day ...