Twelve Black inmates at Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's first super ... More than two-thirds of its inmates are held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, ranging from two weeks to ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

Pelican Bay, opened in 1989 in Crescent City, became the blueprint for maximum security facilities now known as Supermax prisons. With 1,000 units dedicated to solitary confinement, the conditions ...

The planned legislation would mean a smaller prison population size in supermax facilities like ... to continue efforts to regulate use of solitary confinement. She noted how its prolonged use ...

Former inmates such as Jack L. Morris (a Chicano man who served 40 years in prison, with more than 30 spent in solitary confinement) and Michael Saavedra (who served close to 20 years, many of ...