Erik Ramsey’s suicide in solitary confinement highlights rising mental illness and a jump in such deaths in North Carolina prisons over the past year.

That has been echoed in the especially hard-fought battles over solitary confinement in the Golden ... than 15 days to an act of torture. The "Nelson Mandela Rules," as they were called, were ...

hunger and solitary confinement before he was released in 1982. As Zozo stood in the room he once shared with other inmates, he recalled a vital lesson: “Our leader, Nelson Mandela ...

commonly known as the “Nelson Mandela Rules.” Chief author of SF207 Clare Oumou Verbeten, DFL-St. Paul, said the DOC needs to reevaluate its use of solitary confinement. “I think the ...