Erin Patterson’s existence inside a tiny cell at Melbourne’s all women’s maximum security prison has been described as ...

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...

Erin Patterson, the mushroom murderer, faces her first Christmas in solitary confinement with no gifts, family, or festive ...

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Nick Reiner is in solitary confinement at Los Angeles' Twin Towers jail, under suicide watch, after being charged with ...

An inmate reads inside the Harris County jail, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Houston. An inmate stands inside the Harris County jail, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Houston. Inmates who have either just ...

He wasn’t sentenced to madness. But that’s what being isolated in a cell 23 hours a day did to him. Getty Images For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more ...

Convicted killer Bryan Kohberger has whined that he’s “extremely annoyed” and losing sleep at the maximum security prison he now calls home — thanks to fellow inmates who constantly yell through vents ...

As its latest defense in an ongoing court battle, New York’s state prison agency is arguing that the core of a landmark solitary confinement reform law does not apply to the vast majority of the ...

Concerns are rising over the health and treatment of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, as his sons, Kasim and ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more ...