The Pennsylvania System came up with the idea of solitary confinement. The goal was to have prisoners contemplate their ...

This summer, guided tours will be available for the area that once housed wardens, clerks, and the officials who ran day-to-day operations. Hard hats will be required.

Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — about half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional Center, a minimum security prison in Jefferson City ... Algoa, a nearly ...

And in solitary confinement ... It took me coming to prison to really answer the question, “Why didn't I say no?” The bottom line: I didn’t know I could. Nobody ever told me I could. I’m 52 years old ...

Convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was reportedly thrown in solitary confinement after taking ... tech mogul was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy, stealing ...

Studies demonstrate that, to the contrary, use of solitary confinement ... of 10 guards and other prison staff in the brutal beating resulting in the death of a 43-year-old inmate, Robert Brooks ...

A coalition of nearly 100 criminal justice reform organizations, public defenders and other advocacy groups sent a letter to state officials calling the suspension of parts of a law banning solitary ...

Solitary confinement is a big deal in in prison. >> Talib Akbar's efforts don't stop with his portable cell. >> It's a moving billboard. >> Near Madison's south side sits a nearly 30 year old box ...

The mother of a man who died by suicide while held in solitary confinement at an Oregon prison last year has filed ... the death in custody of a 35-year-old man with a history of mental health ...

of Construction Yardley, as they inspect the new Stateville prison in Joliet, Illinois ... them and placed the whole crew in solitary confinement,” the Tribune story said.

About 200 of those individuals were over 60 years old ... solitary confinement for years, said Angee Schrader, a senior corrections ombuds. During that time period, there were 13,538 people in ...

Courtesy of Anthony Gay When Anthony Gay spent his first weeks at a federal prison in Missouri earlier this year in solitary confinement ... The 50 year old had been transferred in January ...