Being locked up is already difficult. But then you are moved even further away from everyone else, into a prison within a prison. A cold, small room becomes your entire world. Twenty three hours a day ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - The 16-year-old won’t tell his mom much about the days he spends locked alone in a room. He falls silent when his mother, Richetta Lowman, brings it up over the ...

The Statesman Journal spoke to one of five people suing the Oregon Department of Corrections for its solitary confinement ...

“Who would want to lock somebody in a room the size of your bathroom and leave them in there for three years…and expect them to come out in the same condition that they went in? That’s insanity.” ...

WORLAND, Wyoming (WyoFile) — The beginning of the plaintiffs’ response in a case alleging abuse at a state facility for delinquent boys features two video footage stills. In one, a boy cowers in the ...

Joseph Moore spent 15 months in a room the size of a parking space. His meals were given to him through a slot. The unventilated box was sweltering in the summer and freezing in the winter. He rarely ...

As a forensic psychiatrist with five decades of experience, I know a mental health problem when I see it. The Mandela California Mandela Act, Assembly Bill 280, would greatly limit solitary ...

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