State Sen. Saud Anwar, co-chair of the state’s Public Health Committee, recently made a rare request to the state Department of Correction. Listening to concerns from the community about the long-term ...

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 ...

A 2013 prison hunger strike in California led to a dramatic decline in the use of solitary confinement. More than a decade ...

Host Davey D sits down with psychiatrist and author Dr. Terry A. Kupers to dig into the realities—and rising urgency—of ending solitary confinement in 2025. Kupers defines solitary plainly: 22+ hours ...

A lawsuit claims that two areas in the New York City jail are designed so that detainees are effectively in solitary confinement, in violation of state law. By Hurubie Meko Since January, Jerry Young ...

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 ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. He wasn’t sentenced to madness. But that’s what being isolated in a cell 23 hours a day ...