Critics say the jail’s cage-like enclosures constitute a form of solitary confinement that exacerbates mental illness and ...

The isolation units at California's Pelican Bay prison hold more than 1,200 inmates. They live in small, windowless cells, ... It consists of a small room with six phone-booth-sized cages.

Stunning and inhumane. It’s how some of the country’s leading prison supply manufacturers describe St. Tammany Parish Jail‘s use of small booking cages to house the mentally ill and suicidal. “Did I ...

Did you know a small historic Squirrel Cage Jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa has a spooky side? Here is what you need to know about this rumored haunted location and the spirits that live there.

The prisoners’ compound itself consists of four barbedwire enclosures known as “cages.” In each cage the prisoners have built a small thatched roof structure faced on three sides by rattan ...

Inmates spend 23 hours a day in small cells with no view of the outside world at the U.S. Supermax prison. ... A recreation hour is allowed in an outdoor cage slightly larger than the prison cells.

In this Feb. 25, 2016 file photo, fences with barbed wire are visible from the window of a cell in what prison officials describe as a disciplinary confinement area rather than solitary ...

A small-framed young Latino kid named Sam was in the left containment cage, ... Housing prisoners in containment cages for days is a widespread and unchecked practice in certain Texas prisons.

He sued prison officials in June 2016, saying that the prolonged denial of exercise had crossed a constitutional line. Two months later, the transfer was approved.