A December 2024 order prompted by class actions required the US Bureau of Prisons to provide proper safeguards to prevent ...

Currently the true number of pregnant and postpartum detention is largely unknown. The Women’s Refugee Commission states ...

A new report from Solitary Watch details systemic abuse in New York prisons, citing physical violence, deprivation of basic resources, and widespread solitary confinement, and calls for urgent and ...

Laura Monterrosa, an asylum seeker who fled physical and sexual abuse in El Salvador and escaped to the U.S., has been held in the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, an immigration jail in Texas, since ...

Attorneys for a Bernalillo County woman have filed a lawsuit accusing New Mexico Corrections Department of breaking state law by holding her in solitary confinement for months in what she described as ...

On Friday, Nov. 21, Tina Peters’ counsel filed a verified notice to the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, ...

A new study warns that the number of immigrants being put in solitary confinement is increasing under the Trump administration. Getty Images/iStockphoto UPDATE: This article was updated the morning of ...

California is considering ending its use of long-term solitary confinement in prisons, jails and private immigration detention centers. A new bill is proposing to restrict these facilities from ...

In October, the Senate voted to send Tona’s Law, Bill S-205, to committee for study. It’s the latest push by the upper ...

COVID-19 could claim the lives of approximately 100,000 more people than current projections stipulate if jail populations are not dramatically and immediately reduced, according to a new ...