Reports of a bare room with a grated drain in the center, called “the Hole,” used as a disciplinary tactic in one facility. Emotional stories of being left…
Read more Probe confirms NC juvenile detention problems. Some kids locked up, isolated.A photograph of a juvenile detention room provided by the North Carolina Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. NC Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention division A lawsuit…
Read more Judge expands reach of lawsuit accusing NC of holding youth in solitary confinementWASHINGTON — Use of solitary confinement in immigration detention is soaring under the Trump administration, according to a report published Wednesday by Physicians for Human Rights using federal data and…
Read more Trump administration increasingly places immigrants in solitary confinement, report finds“For me, hell was not the moment Israel attacked; hell was the moment they wouldn’t open the door [of the cell] for us,” Motahareh Goonei recalls in an…
Read more ‘I thought it was the end of my life’: Inside Israel’s attack on Iran’s Evin PrisonWASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used solitary confinement at its detention facilities more than 14,000 times between 2018 and 2023, including one California immigrant detainee who was…
Read more ICE kept a California immigrant in solitary confinement for two years, study findsThe New York City Council has voted in favor of banning most uses of solitary confinement in city jails, which could put a near-total end to a controversial…
Read more New York City Council Votes To Ban Most Uses Of Solitary Confinement In City JailsThis story was produced in partnership with the Inside/Out Journalism Project by Type Investigations, which works with incarcerated reporters to produce ambitious, feature-length investigations, with support from the…
Read more New Jersey Reformed Solitary Confinement — But Prisoners Say Not Much Has ChangedWhen Donald Trump appeared last week in a Washington, D.C., courtroom for his arraignment on federal election charges, the presiding judge gave the former president a few simple…
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