Gary Harkins also spent decades inside an isolation unit -- as a correctional officer at the Oregon State Penitentiary. He says solitary... Working the Isolation Unit: A Prison Officer's Tale For 25 ...

The isolation units at California's Pelican Bay prison hold more than 1,200 inmates. They live in small, windowless cells, often for years, with... At Pelican Bay Prison, a Life in Solitary At Pelican ...

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 ...

Suicides in state prisons have soared in the last several years, and solitary confinement is a leading contributor, a new report claims. According to the new report from two groups advocating against ...

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 ...