After spending years in solitary confinement at Angola’s Camp J, Kiana Calloway now works to expose the lasting psychological ...

The conditions in New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services’ secure youth prisons are deeply troubling.

New York teens held inside the state’s adolescent detention centers are routinely kept locked in cramped quarters without ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teenagers as young as 12 years old in New York juvenile detention centers are held for prolonged periods in solitary ...

A federal class action civil rights lawsuit has been filed challenging the routine use of solitary confinement against youth ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zachariah Bacote says he still doesn’t know why he was stabbed at Bertie Correctional Institution in January. He also can’t figure ...

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 ...