Legally, time in solitary confinement is limited to 15 days, and only if prison officials offer a detailed rationale. Lawyers…
Prison
Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small…
A complaint filed by the Legal Aid Society and others accuses the state prison system of holding mentally ill and…
Markus Johnson slumped naked against the wall of his cell, skin flecked with pepper spray, his face a mask of…
Less than two years ago, the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner was starting her nine-year sentence in a penal colony in…
For its offering at this year’s Venice Biennale, the Holy See chose an unusual venue: the Giudecca women’s prison.
About 600 inmates housed at the troubled facility in the San Francisco Bay Area will be transferred to other federal…
The country’s military rulers have signaled a new wave of detentions and, rights groups say, conditions for existing prisoners have…
An effort to unshackle a detainee during legal meetings has put a spotlight on simmering tensions in the Pentagon’s secretive…
Here’s how the former crypto mogul’s 25-year sentence stacks up against the prosecutions of Michael Milken, Bernie Madoff and others.