Several years ago, Damascus James started exchanging letters with people in Texas prisons. That evolved into a project called Texas Letters, a collection of letters written by people living in ...

Nearly a dozen legislators wrote a letter Friday urging the Department of Homeland Security to “end the misuse of solitary confinement in immigration detention,” citing a Feb. 6 report from nonprofit ...

March 29 (UPI) --Twelve senators signed a letter Friday to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas expressing concern over alleged solitary confinement policy violations by U.S. Immigration and ...

Proposed legislation to eliminate or scale back the use of restricted housing units in Pennsylvania stems from a Disability Rights Network PA lawsuit. DRN states that prisoners in solitary confinement ...

THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. A NEW PUSH TO END SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN FEDERAL PRISONS INCLUDES ONE HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL INMATES HAVE BEEN LOCKED IN THEIR CELLS FOR UP ...