Prolonged periods of being locked up alone can cause heart disease and mental health problems, experts say. Backers say the practice keeps guards safe. By Corey Kilgannon More than a half-century ...

June 30 should have been the day that Rikers Island ended solitary confinement for 18- to 21-year-olds. This would have made the jail complex the first in the nation to eliminate solitary for that age ...

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 ...