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 ...

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 ...

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 ...