Zachariah Bacote says he still doesn’t know why he was stabbed at Bertie Correctional Institution in January. He also can’t figure out why correctional officers put him, the victim of an attack, in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretive housing units inside federal prisons in which prisoners are condemned to live in stark isolation from the outside world are unconstitutional, violate the religious rights ...

Young men housed in Connecticut’s adult prisons have spent long periods in isolation, receiving almost no programming or mental health services, few visits, little recreation and frequent strip ...

High-security prisons introduced in recent years in Turkey fail to meet Mandela Rules on prisoners’ right to sunlight and fresh air, according to human rights advocates.