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 Intervention Unit nicknamed the “dungeon” and has ...

I saw first hand how prisons are having to use segregation units for acutely mentally ill inmates who should not be in prison at all ...

On stifling days last summer, Reyes Miranda baked in his cell, the metal walls so hot to the touch that he worried he’d burn himself. At night, he slept on the cool concrete floor for relief. Miranda ...