Amid renewed debate over the controversial practice, an archival FRONTLINE documentary offers a visceral portrait of life in solitary confinement at one maximum-security prison.

R. Kelly leaves a North Carolina prison’s Special Housing Unit after officials found no wrongdoing tied to a retired warden’s ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anders Breivik. Anders Breivik, the man responsible for Norway's worst peacetime atrocity, is due to testify in court today in an ...

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An incarcerated woman in a Texas prison is being kept in isolation and punished for talking to other women about abortion, The Nation reported on Tuesday. The punishment was doled out mid-April, ...

A Connecticut youth prison has agreed to eliminate use of isolation as a form of punishment as part of an agreement with the federal Justice Department, officials said. The Justice Department said ...

From 1976: A psychology professor, testifying in a case brought by a Walla Walla prisoner, made an eyebrow-raising statement about prisoners held in isolation cells. “The consensus was that (isolation ...

Attorneys allege mentally ill inmates in Arizona prisons are kept in isolation due to staff threats and violence, violating court orders.

Breivik's lawyer Oystein Storrvik argued that the isolation has rendered his client "mentally vulnerable". "I've become more radical. I was radical to start but these past five years I've become much ...

For six years, Honesty Jade Bishop was held in solitary confinement in a Missouri prison after she was sexually assaulted by her cellmate. The Department of Corrections deemed that Bishop, a ...