'Survivors of solitary confinement' As many Americans experience the holidays alone for the first time, formerly incarcerated share how they got through isolation ...

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

But solitary animals can also help us consider that being alone doesn't necessarily have to be problematic, even if it has been somewhat stigmatised in our extrovert-driven society, says Schradin.

In solitary confinement, inmates spend nearly every minute of the day alone in a cell about the size of a parking space. Advertisement The cells are bare concrete spaces.

First we need a sharper sense of how being alone affects us. Solitary confinement is used extensively in U.S. prisons, in part because federal courts rarely acknowledge that it is torture.

‘New York City officials claim people in “alternatives to solitary” will have at least 10 hours of daily out-of-cell time, with counseling and programming. But their actual plan involves people being ...

The link was especially strong for teen girls, Creswell said. "The odds of alcohol use disorder symptoms at age 35 was 86% higher for adolescent females (high school seniors) who drank alone.

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...