Being locked up is already difficult. But then you are moved even further away from everyone else, into a prison within a ...

When prison inmates break the rules, they may be placed in solitary confinement—sometimes for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Although it is frequently criticized, disciplinary segregation is still widely used in ...

The disgraced R&B singer, who is serving a 30-year federal sentence for racketeering and sex trafficking, was moved to the Special Housing Unit — commonly known as the SHU or solitary confinement — at ...

Tyrone Good died last month after police said he was attacked by eight men inside a cell at the Allegheny County Jail.

At a time of record and rising prison populations, New York has taken a different path, showing that crime rates and prison populations can decline simultaneously. Over the past decade, while the ...