Solitary Confinement

UN torture investigator raps US, India for not allowing access into prison systems

A UN torture investigator has accused the US and India of stalling on his requests to visit their prisons

Thousands of US prison inmates on hunger strike

Nearly 30,000 of the 133,000 inmates in California prisons refused meals for the second day in support of inmates held in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, corrections officials said Tuesday