Lil Durk has spent more than four months in solitary confinement, a situation his legal team says stems from possession of an ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s webpage on restricted housing includes this query: “Does CDCR have solitary confinement?” The answer: “No.” With no further explanation.

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 ...

An inmate stands in his cell at the main jail in downtown Sacramento. A California Assembly bill to limit solitary confinement has met with pushback from sheriffs who see a physically impossible, ...

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 ...

It’s been a year since Imhotep Muhammad returned home from Dauphin County Prison after a jury acquitted him of the most serious charges that had him locked up for 26 months. The scars from that time, ...

Despite finally opening a long-planned alternative to its old isolation cells this year, Oregon’s largest youth prison continues to use its 1950s-era Intervention Unit nicknamed the “dungeon” and has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. He wasn’t sentenced to madness. But that’s what being isolated in a cell 23 hours a day ...