A working group that Mayor Bill de Blasio created earlier this year to craft a plan for ending the use of solitary confinement in city jails is going to deliver its report to City Hall in the “next ...

An executive order from Mayor Zohran Mamdani to end solitary confinement in jails is receiving praise from some advocates, who say they know firsthand about the damage that could be done inside a cell ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani put New York City’s troubled jail system on the clock to end solitary confinement — issuing yet another executive order to unravel his predecessor’s actions. Mamdani signed an ...

It’s around midnight, and nearly all of the incarcerated people housed at Washington Corrections Center are locked up. Dennis ...

GALESBURG, Ill. — A federal judge has ordered sweeping changes at the Mary Davis Juvenile Detention Home in Galesburg after finding that isolation practices at the juvenile facility likely violated ...

This is a year we would all sooner forget. But 2020 can be remembered as the year New York City ended solitary confinement. Layleen Polanco’s death in 2019 was a tragic illustration of how restricted ...

Walta Williams, holding microphone, speaks about her teenage son's experience in solitary confinement at the Onondaga County Justice Center. The jail is the subject of a class-action lawsuit on behalf ...