The Alaska Department of Corrections and the American Civil Liberties Union are working together to reform the Anchorage Correctional Complex’s solitary confinement practices. The department and ...

William Thorpe has spent nearly 24 straight years in solitary confinement in Virginia prisons stuck in a cell about half of the size of a parking space for more than 22 ... Class Action Suit Filed ...

But unlike many in solitary, Sesson and Simmons wouldn't have a moment alone. The 4-foot-8-inch by 10-foot-8-inch space was originally built for one, but as Menard became increasingly overcrowded ...

And family members say that because of his back problems, Cook was placed in solitary confinement about three weeks before he died. Cook’s father, Mark Cook Sr., said he spoke with an Alaska ...

(Photo: Courtesy of Five Mualimm-ak) “I don’t think that there’s a functional space for people with mental ... “The concept of isolation, solitary confinement,” he said, “a person ...

It was a real-life version of that space on the Monopoly board game that ... and all have spent time in long-term solitary confinement. Class Action Suit Filed Against Alaska Doc After Decades Of ...

Nearly 1,000 city jail inmates who should be locked in solitary confinement aren’t — because there’s no space. These misbehaving cons are free to roam among the jails’ general populations ...