The AKP regime's prison policies are the product not only of a logic of punishment, but also of a practice of establishing a political and social order. Therefore, to think about prisons is to talk ...

During an early April meeting of the Commission on Youth, comprised of state lawmakers, some delegates discussed feeling ...

Forget sandy beaches and crowded theme parks – the most unforgettable spring break destination might just be a crumbling prison in Philadelphia where the walls quite literally talk back.

This isn’t just another stop on your Pennsylvania road trip; it’s a journey into the heart of American criminal justice history wrapped in architecture so dramatically Gothic it makes Dracula’s castle ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - In Death Penalty News this month, Randy Poindexter describes his experience with solitary confinement and ...

Between the ages of 14 and 17, Mikal spent over 1,800 hours in solitary confinement in Virginia — more than 75 days. At that ...

Virginia’s prisons have been fighting allegations that they callously lock away prisoners for years in solitary confinement.

Getty Images For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, South Carolina kept me in solitary confinement. I was a young man before I was ...