Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was back in a solitary jail cell on Thursday after prosecutors secured a new ...

Solitary confinement is being challenged across the US due to its harmful effects on incarcerated individuals and its failure to improve prison safety, with studies and legal cases showing that it can ...

Solitary confinement, the practice of putting someone in isolation in a small cell, is not a topic you expect to hear discussed at church on Sunday. But on Oct. 12, at the Madison Christian Community, ...

R. Kelly, originally named Robert Sylvester Kelly, is reportedly now in solitary confinement in prison. Beau Brindley, the former singer and record producer’s attorney, has allegedly revealed the ...

State Sen. Saud Anwar, co-chair of the state’s Public Health Committee, recently made a rare request to the state Department of Correction. Listening to concerns from the community about the long-term ...

An inmate reads inside the Harris County jail, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Houston. An inmate stands inside the Harris County jail, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Houston. Inmates who have either just ...

Last spring, Devon Davis says, he was riding in the passenger seat of his early-2000s-model Lexus with a friend when Raleigh police pulled them over. There was a gun in the vehicle. Davis said it ...

Years after voters amended the state's constitution to ban forced labor in prison, a court ruling could finally make Colorado change how prison guards "compel and coerce" work.