Reginald Dwayne Betts was locked up as a teenager for carjacking. Books were his escape, and he went on to be a poet, lawyer ...

Solitary confinement, the practice of putting someone in isolation in a small cell, is not a topic you expect to hear ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A Bay Area legislator wants to put controls on placing young people in solitary confinement in youth detention centers. Senator Mark Leno said it's cruel punishment, which does ...

As the Trump administration sends unprecedented numbers of people into detention facilities, researchers and NGOs are raising ...

As a forensic psychiatrist who testifies in court about the research-proven harm of solitary confinement, and a law professor ...

When Nicolas Sarkozy was in charge of law and order in France, he saw nothing wrong with his country’s prisons being the ...

ICE guidelines limit solitary confinement for people with mental health issues to exceptional circumstances and as a last ...

New York City's Rikers Island is one of the country's biggest jails: It houses about 12,000 adults, alongside hundreds of 16- and 17-year-olds. Many of these juveniles – most of whom have been charged ...

Former New York Rep. George Santos was freed after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence, thanking him for the second ...

On Friday evening, President Trump commuted the sentence of former Representative George Santos. “Good luck George, have a ...

He does not get any sunlight. He’s only allowed to buy stamps from the commissary and is drinking water from the sink,” tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia). “This is ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Bryan Kohberger, who pleaded guilty to the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students, has been moved to solitary confinement, CNN affiliate KTVB reported. Kohberger has been ...