As I woke up for my daily job as a prisoner at the Washington State Reformatory, I drank a cup of freeze-dried coffee and watched the local morning news. One story instantly caught my attention: The ...

Despite a number of state reforms over the past decade, nearly 50,000 people were held in solitary confinement in prison systems across the country last year, according to a report released Wednesday.

Statistics and advocates for incarcerated people both suggest that the use of solitary confinement at Allegheny County Jail has decreased markedly since a referendum restricting its use went into ...

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...

Immigration detention centers are holding more people in solitary confinement than had been believed, and the practice is growing. New data show thousands more immigrants were held in solitary ...

Advocacy groups have called on New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson to help pass legislation that would halt solitary confinement completely. The legislation, Intro 2173, has 34 co-sponsors in ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at the podium during a press conference on Feb. 20. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post Leave it to Gov. Kathy Hochul to bungle another crisis — this time, strikes by correction ...