New York City Mayor Eric Adams has vowed to keep punitive segregation going in an attempt to curb the jails’ exploding violence. New York Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference at a ...

Commissioner Ponte, the author, & Mayor de Blasio (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayor's Office) Today, the New York City Department of Correction formally ended the practice of punitive segregation for ...

Starting Tuesday, 19- to 21-year-olds in New York City’s jails will no longer be placed in solitary confinement or, as jail and prison officials call it, punitive segregation, a practice in which ...

The city jail system is sharply expanding its so-called Punitive Segregation Unit, or solitary confinement cells, reports Solitary Watch, a blog which reports on the nations penal system. By the end ...

Gatesville is equipped to keep 2,014 criminal offenders and includes all custody levels: minimum, medium, maximum, administrative segregation, punitive segregation and protective custody. The compound ...

When prison inmates break the rules, they may be placed in solitary confinement—sometimes for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Although it ...

Texas correctional officials this month quietly eliminated the use of solitary confinement as a punishment for jailhouse rule-breakers, positioning the state at the forefront of a nationwide push to ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Jailed rapper Foxy Brown, who was sentenced to "punitive segregation" after committing three violations at Rikers Island prison, was released from solitary confinement this week ...

Criminal justice advocates want nearly 500 Texas inmates certified in a class action lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, alleging the state's prison system is assigning inmates ...

I remember the first time I ever saw a child locked up in a men's prison. I was walking down the corridor of a maximum-security prison, visiting a prisoner who had been transferred there from the ...