Two prison officers were seen playing football with a toilet roll hours before an inmate died in a jail in Nottinghamshire.

A prison director has told an inquest he observed an "extraordinary" culture of "staff not caring" at a jail where an inmate ...

A federal judge has blocked an upstate prison from holding a mentally ill minor in solitary confinement for months on end — including a barbaric 10-day, 24-hour-a-day stretch — saying the 17-year-old ...

TODD FICKETT, Inmate: It’s like being buried alive. GORDON PERRY, Inmate: This place is like an insane asylum. Thoughts of suicide come along. ANNOUNCER: Solitary confinement. ADAM BRULOTTE, Inmate: ...

STILLWATER, Minn. -- The segregation unit at the Stillwater state prison can be a nightmare. Inmates chatter and shout all night long, so many find it easier to sleep during the day, according to the ...

The Anchorage jail will soon have a “green room,” where inmates in solitary confinement can get a break from the sensory deprivation of life in a cell 23 hours a day by watching videos of clouds, ...

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These historical revisionists underestimate the will of the community and Dutch civil rights advocates to set the record ...

During his long stay at the Orleans Parish lockup before he escaped last month, detainee Lenton Vanburen had racked up criminal charges in six cases for jail violations in less than two years, ...