In his early months in prison, Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger struggles with isolation, inmate taunts, and formal complaints ...

Tommy Robinson is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence - Yui Mok/PA Tommy Robinson should have his 18-month prison sentence reduced as his segregation while in custody is having a ...

Rachel Hurt pleaded guilty in 2018 to charges that resulted in her classification as a sex offender which is complicating efforts to find a suitable place for her to live. (Kentucky State Police photo ...

Discover why punishment-based prisons fail, and how psychology offers a more humane and effective path to justice.

An incarcerated woman in a Texas prison is being kept in isolation and punished for talking to other women about abortion, The Nation reported on Tuesday. The punishment was doled out mid-April, ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — An American man recently sentenced by North Korea to six years of hard labor says he is digging in fields eight hours a day and being kept in isolation, but that so far ...

For six years, Honesty Jade Bishop was held in solitary confinement in a Missouri prison after she was sexually assaulted by her cellmate. The Department of Corrections deemed that Bishop, a ...

A Connecticut youth prison has agreed to eliminate use of isolation as a form of punishment as part of an agreement with the federal Justice Department, officials said. The Justice Department said ...

Breivik's lawyer Oystein Storrvik argued that the isolation has rendered his client "mentally vulnerable". "I've become more radical. I was radical to start but these past five years I've become much ...

As Virginia legislators study the issue, faith groups point to evidence isolation is unfair and ineffective. Natasha White wants to remind Christians of Hebrews 13:3: “Remember those in prison as if ...

TYRISTRAND, Norway (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right fanatic who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in Norway in 2011, will testify in court on Tuesday as he presses on ...

Men never convicted of a crime denied reading, exercise or human contact. Peter Minich’s condition has deteriorated since spending 6,300 hours in solitary confinement, according to his mother, Joanne ...