Erin Patterson’s existence inside a tiny cell at Melbourne’s all women’s maximum security prison has been described as ...

The post Security prisoner Mahmoud Atallah placed in solitary confinement after intel suggested he was planning riot appeared ...

When Erin Patterson wakes up on December 25, there’ll be no Christmas tree. No gifts from loved ones and no festive meal.

Erin Patterson, the mushroom murderer, faces her first Christmas in solitary confinement with no gifts, family, or festive ...

Under the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules ), it is defined as the confinement of ...

Over a week after their emergency transfer from a Baltimore jail, women awaiting trial at the Maryland Correctional ...

When prison inmates break the rules, they may be placed in solitary confinement—sometimes for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Although it ...

As its latest defense in an ongoing court battle, New York’s state prison agency is arguing that the core of a landmark solitary confinement reform law does not apply to the vast majority of the ...

A federal appeals court ruled against Rhode Island prison administrators for holding a man in solitary confinement for over a year. The ruling allows the inmate's lawsuit alleging cruel and unusual ...