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 ...

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 ...

Men never convicted of a crime denied reading, exercise or human contact. Peter Minich’s condition has deteriorated since spending 6,300 hours in solitary confinement, according to his mother, Joanne ...

Gary Harkins also spent decades inside an isolation unit -- as a correctional officer at the Oregon State Penitentiary. He says solitary... Working the Isolation Unit: A Prison Officer's Tale For 25 ...