While there is no universally agreed upon definition, modern solitary — also called supermax or the box — is commonly understood to involve confinement to a small cell for 22 to 24 hours a day.

A new lawsuit launched by 21 of the 37 convicts whose death sentences were controversially commuted by President Biden at the ...

No country uses long-term solitary confinement more than the leader of the free ... While these “supermax” units, which rely on isolation as a cudgel, were rare before 1990, they exist in ...

The punishment was severe: He was sent to a special supermax unit at the state ... They decided to protest long-term solitary confinement by organizing a hunger strike. It would become the ...