For example, the cat you see hissing at other animals or cowering in the back of a shelter cage could be a purring machine ...

Solitary confinement can cause severe psychological impacts and the U.N. considers it torture. Yet prolonged isolation ...

I can’t help but reflect on my experience, as the state of South Carolina is scheduled to execute Mikal Mahdi, whose life was also destroyed by solitary confinement, on Friday. I don’t know him, but I ...

Hundreds of users have flocked to the comments to defend the cat, one user said: "Maybe the employees had bad vibes." ...

Blackwell grew up in Tacoma and has been in prison since he was 22; he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for taking the life of another person during a 2003 drug robbery. His work ...

He is set to spend the rest of his life in a dungeon underneath Wakefield Prison. US prisoner Albert Woodfox previously held the world record for solitary confinement at 43 years, which has since ...

He was incarcerated again and thrown into solitary confinement—a practice now largely understood as a form of torture, particularly for children. At trial, his attorneys declined to present key ...