Being locked up is already difficult. But then you are moved even further away from everyone else, into a prison within a ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a thought experiment, head to your nearest private bathroom, close the door and imagine spending at least 22 hours a day there by yourself for the next few weeks, months, or maybe even decades. If ...

I began work that day as I did any other, sweeping the floor in solitary confinement at Pinckneyville Correctional Center in my $0.04-per-hour job. The cacophony of dozens of men roaring over one ...

Fallon Venessa-Lynne Aubee, a Métis-Cree French transgender woman, has lost count of the number of times she spent in administrative segregation within Canada’s federal penitentiary system. It started ...

While millions of Americans spent Thanksgiving celebrating the holiday with family and friends, Michael Johnson spent it in an Illinois prison. Sentenced in 2007 for home invasion and assault, for a ...