Activists and at least one representative from the United Nations on Thursday said the United States has long been responsible for a dangerous export: The use of solitary confinement for incarcerated ...

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams is trying to have it both ways: supporting the use of solitary confinement in city jails without using the term and accepting the current mayoral administration’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An immigrant makes a call from his 'segregation cell' at the Adelanto Detention Facility in 2013. (John Moore / Getty Images) U.S.

This story was produced by The Marshall Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system, and ...

Update Friday, Oct. 6, 2023: It’s been one year since Mahsa Amini’s death while in custody of the Iranian Guidance Patrol, launching a renewed feminist uprising in Iran. Just this week, Iranian human ...

In his celebrated memoir Just Mercy, lawyer Bryan Stevenson writes of the death penalty: “[The question] is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit” but instead, “do we ...

This is the first holiday season without my son, Brandon Rodriguez. Our family is broken. New York City’s jail’s use of solitary confinement killed Brandon. Days before his death in August, he was ...