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The Cook County Juvenile Center houses the youth detention center.

Social Justice

Solitary Confinement Is on the Rise in a Chicago Juvenile Detention Center

Many states have banned or severely limited solitary confinement for juveniles because of its negative impact on youth. But Chicago's Cook County detention system has gone in the other direction.

Ashley Hackett

An abandoned housing wing is now a chapter of the Boys and Girls Club at the Sacramento Youth Detention Facility.

Social Justice

Sacramento’s Quest to End Solitary Confinement for Kids

After settling a lawsuit for conscience-shocking behavior, a youth detention facility in Sacramento is setting the course to end punitive solitary confinement nationwide.

Molly McCluskey

News in Brief

Federal Prisoners With Mental Illness May Spend Years in Solitary Confinement

A new report spotlights one case in which an inmate spent 19 years in a "Restrictive Housing Unit."

Kate Wheeling

News in Brief

The Unexpected Release of Chelsea Manning

Four summers ago on a military base in Maryland, not far from the headquarters of the National Security…

Melissa Gira Grant

News in Brief

The Justice Department Wants to End Solitary Confinement of Juveniles — For Now

Hundreds of years of history show that solitary confinement is dangerous. While the end of the practice is…

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

Being Chelsea Manning

At the end of September, Chelsea Manning was finishing up a book on artificial intelligence and human life…

Melissa Gira Grant

News in Brief

Leaving Solitary, Nearly Four Decades Later

After almost 37 years in solitary confinement, Arthur Johnson will return to the general prison population. By Julie…

Pacific Standard Staff

The interior of a cell at the Security Housing Unit of Pelican Bay State Prison, the notorious maximum-security site in Crescent City, California, for top-level prisoners.

News in Brief

The End of Solitary Confinement

What is California going to do with "the worst of the worst"?

Jessica Pishko

News in Brief

Abusers in the Juvenile Justice System Are Getting Off Scot-Free

Amid significant reforms, federal officials worry that sexual abuse in juvenile justice system remains prevalent and too often unpunished.

Joaquin Sapien

News in Brief

Solitary Confinement and the Teenage Brain

More than 20 years ago, the international community agreed that teenagers should only be jailed as a last resort—and never placed in solitary confinement.

Francie Diep