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.

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 ...

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

For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, South Carolina kept ...

Virginia’s prisons have been fighting allegations that they callously lock away prisoners for years in solitary confinement.

Pelican Bay, opened in 1989 in Crescent City, became the blueprint for maximum security facilities now known as Supermax prisons. With 1,000 units dedicated to solitary confinement, the conditions ...

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 ...

Of that massive number, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary confinement for at least 22 hours a day. Solitary confinement is the brutal practice of stuffing people into closet ...

Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, South Carolina kept me in solitary confinement. I was a young man before I was sent to solitary — angry, untreated and unwell.

For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, South Carolina kept me in solitary confinement. I was a young man before I was sent to ...