Drew Doll spent 15 consecutive months in solitary confinement. During the first week, Doll said he “bounced off the walls.” In his cell alone for 22 to 24 hours a day, he could take about four steps ...

He was diagnosed with anxiety and depression after being sent to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, and his history of ...

U.S. prisoners are being given virtual reality (VR) headsets to help them deal with solitary confinement. California prisons have introduced a VR program to alleviate the severe psychological effects ...

There is a difference between loneliness (the imposition of social isolation) and aloneness (the choice of being alone), and thus the brain reacts in very different ways. Loneliness, or social ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An immigrant makes a call from his 'segregation cell' at the Adelanto Detention Facility in 2013. (John Moore / Getty Images) U.S.

The scheduled September 30 execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee has prompted legal experts and United Nations officials to advocate for clemency, citing her documented history of severe childhood ...

As a forensic psychiatrist, I have studied and testified in court for over four decades about the harms of solitary confinement. Research indicates it does not reduce violence behind bars, and in US ...

If you asked staff at the DC Jail about solitary confinement, they might tell you it does not exist in the correctional facility. That’s because it goes by many other names. I worked for about a year ...

South Carolinian Randy Poindexter writes about the effects 16 years of solitary confinement had on him ahead of South Carolina’s planned execution of Mikal Mahdi, who spent months in solitary as a ...

Several years ago, Damascus James started exchanging letters with people in Texas prisons. That evolved into a project called Texas Letters, a collection of letters written by people living in ...

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 ...