Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 8—During a hearing last month, Maine's top corrections official told lawmakers that the state prisons do not use solitary ...

SKIEN, Norway (AP) — Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik told a panel of judges Thursday that his solitary confinement in prison had deeply damaged him and made him even more radical in his ...

"I've become more radical. I was radical to start but these past five years I've become much more radical," the right-wing extremist said as he gave evidence against the state, which has appealed a ...

An incarcerated woman in a Texas prison is being kept in isolation and punished for talking to other women about abortion, The Nation reported on Tuesday. The punishment was doled out mid-April, ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — An American man recently sentenced by North Korea to six years of hard labor says he is digging in fields eight hours a day and being kept in isolation, but that so far ...

A Connecticut youth prison has agreed to eliminate use of isolation as a form of punishment as part of an agreement with the federal Justice Department, officials said. The Justice Department said ...

About 90 women from FCI Dublin who were transferred to a prison in Minnesota sobbed to attorneys, reporting they are repeatedly placed in lockdown and in solitary confinement for minor offenses. The ...

A New York environmental activist stuck in an extreme isolation unit for writing letters and publishing articles — and then re-jailed for writing about being put in that isolation unit in the first ...

As Virginia legislators study the issue, faith groups point to evidence isolation is unfair and ineffective. Natasha White wants to remind Christians of Hebrews 13:3: “Remember those in prison as if ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — An American man recently sentenced by North Korea to six years of hard labor says he is digging in fields eight hours a day and being kept in isolation, but that so far ...