UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran's reformists has been detained for nearly two months and is in solitary confinement at Evin Prison, a facility rights advocates have criticized for prisoner abuse, sources told Reuters on Tuesday. Full story
Melissa Harris-Perry gives a message to Louisiana Attorney General James “Buddy” Caldwell about prisoners still in solitary confinement after 40 years.
NBC’s Ted Koppel investigates the effects of solitary confinement on some of the country’s youngest and most vulnerable prisoners, some as young as 9 years old. He speaks with one former juvenile prisoner who calls it “the worst thing I ever went through.”
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Prisons has agreed to a comprehensive review of the use of solitary confinement in its prisons, including the fiscal and public safety consequences of the controversial practice, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin said on Monday. Full story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's largest civil liberties group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against state corrections officials on behalf of a convicted rapist who spent 26 months in solitary confinement after a non-violent offense in his cell. Full story
Valarie Kaur shares her upcoming documentary "The Worst of the Worst," a first-person story of what it's like to be a prisoner trapped in solitary confinement.
A picture taken on November 25, 2012, shows a group of inmates standing on a roof of the Prison Number 6 in Kopeisk in the Chelyabinsk region during their protest which the authorities said was aimed at obtaining the release of convicts from solitary confinement and the easing of conditions. The po
