An incarcerated woman in a Texas prison is being kept in isolation and punished for talking to other women about abortion, The Nation reported on Tuesday. The punishment was doled out mid-April, ...

Anders Breivik, the man responsible for Norway's worst peacetime atrocity, is due to testify in court today in an attempt to end his prison isolation. The far-right fanatic, who killed 77 people in a ...

Tommy Robinson is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence - Yui Mok/PA Tommy Robinson should have his 18-month prison sentence reduced as his segregation while in custody is having a ...

For six years, Honesty Jade Bishop was held in solitary confinement in a Missouri prison after she was sexually assaulted by her cellmate. The Department of Corrections deemed that Bishop, a ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — An American man recently sentenced by North Korea to six years of hard labor says he is digging in fields eight hours a day and being kept in isolation, but that so far ...

Breivik's lawyer Oystein Storrvik argued that the isolation has rendered his client "mentally vulnerable". "I've become more radical. I was radical to start but these past five years I've become much ...

A Connecticut youth prison has agreed to eliminate use of isolation as a form of punishment as part of an agreement with the federal Justice Department, officials said. The Justice Department said ...

TYRISTRAND, Norway (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right fanatic who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in Norway in 2011, will testify in court on Tuesday as he presses on ...

Story by Maxine Bernstein, oregonlive.com • 27m Despite finally opening a long-planned alternative to its old isolation cells this year, Oregon’s largest youth prison continues to use its 1950s-era ...