At the age of 21, I was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison and sent to a New York state facility. It was a dark and violent place filled with cries of pain and suffering. My wing was a corridor ...

Being locked up is already difficult. But then you are moved even further away from everyone else, into a prison within a ...

Honesty Bishop was attacked by her cellmate. Missouri prison officials deemed her sexually active and kept her in isolation for over six years. Honesty Bishop could hear the screams of other people in ...

As Virginia legislators study the issue, faith groups point to evidence isolation is unfair and ineffective. Natasha White wants to remind Christians of Hebrews 13:3: “Remember those in prison as if ...

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 ...

Extended solitary confinement in California prisons was supposed to have ended, for all practical purposes, after a 2015 legal settlement in a case brought by plaintiffs who had been held in isolation ...

Texas prisoners living in solitary confinement are leading a hunger strike and risking starvation to highlight the cruelty they face on a daily basis — and that is only the most recent high-profile ...

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 ...

Join KPFA for the launch of the national Journey to Justice Bus Tour and the book Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement (Pluto Press, 2025). Featuring authors Dr. Terry Kupers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica just accidentally hosted a better simulation of confinement in deep space than NASA has ever attempted. (Credit: French ...