High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.

The state reached a settlement with the family of Robert L. Brooks, who died after being beaten by prison guards in 2024.

For Immediate Release: September 18, 2026Contact: Jean Casella, jcasella@solitarywatch.org, (917) 974-0529 WASHINGTON, DC—Solitary Watch today announced the first group of recipients to receive suppor...

The overwhelming majority of women in solitary have survived intimate partner violence. This means prisons are torturing abuse survivors.

I secured preliminary injunctions and created new legal precedents for transgender women in prison. But in 2025, I had to settle before the Trump administration took office.

New York prisons hold people suspected of ingesting contraband items in “special watch” cells with no running water for days or weeks.

The anti-terrorism cases that garnered little outrage should have concerned us all.

According to new data, more than 700 people were transferred out of the Newark detention facility in what advocates say was an attempt to break a strike by detainees.

Condemning solitary confinement doesn’t mean supporting the Tate brothers, writes journalist Chandra Bozelko. “A right that dissolves when applied to the despised was never a right at all.”

23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent in Louisiana’s Angola prison — and how, even after being released, he still isn’t truly free.

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A New York correctional union and Republican backers are weaponizing a false narrative about solitary confinement and violence.

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In the middle of a three-year stint in solitary confinement, Karl Chujoy describes what letters and books means to people living in isolation.

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A misconduct report before the transfer noted that Malik Muhammad, a Black Lives Matter protester, was critical of Israel in communications from prison.

Federal authorities must provide access to clean drinking water, nutritious and sanitary meals and address hygiene issues

The Washington State Supreme Court will rule on whether Amber Kim, who is trans, can return to a women’s prison.

California officials dial back the minor reforms they've made to isolation in prison, four years after Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation to rein in solitary confinement.

GEO Group, which operates the Aurora immigration detention facility, is blocking a tuberculosis investigation, county health officials say.

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An independent review found violence, weak oversight, outdated training, and dysfunction across New York’s prison system.

A federal judge Thursday ordered the individual, known only as A.D. in legal filings, to be turned over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which runs shelters for children.

Grants for journalists covering the use and impact of solitary confinement in the U.S. carceral system.