The class action suit claims five facilities under the State Office of Children and Family Services “routinely and unlawfully ...

Children as young as 12 are allegedly confined for weeks at a time with no education or human contact, a lawsuit claims.

When corrections officials talk about solitary confinement, they describe it as the prison within the prison, and for good reason. For 23 hours a day, inmates are kept inside a cell that is ...

The growing bipartisan consensus around solitary confinement — that it’s inhumane and overused across the criminal justice system — has led to its sharp decline in recent years, including in Texas.

In this election year, the debate about immigrants entering the U.S. has taken on renewed urgency. But it's also important to pay attention to the conditions faced by those already within U.S. borders ...

As the use of solitary confinement in immigration detention centers increases under the Biden administration, according to the federal data, some Democratic-aligned lawmakers are demanding an end to ...

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Jaki Murillo was 12 years old when she first entered the juvenile justice system in California. When she was 9, she tells Teen Vogue, she was arrested for making “terrorist threats” after telling a ...

The United States is at a turning point in its approach to criminal justice. Today, a new ray of hope shines as the End Solitary Confinement Act, a bill introduced by a coalition of House Democrats, ...

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