The 16-year-old won’t tell his mom much about the days he spends locked alone in a room. He falls silent when his mother, Richetta Lowman, brings it up over the phone or when she drives from ...

Room confinement is commonly practiced within juvenile justice facilities most often for safety and security reasons, according to the OIG.

Room confinement cannot be used as a punishment, a disciplinary sanction or as a response to a staffing shortage. The child is required to be released from confinement as soon as the risk of harm ...

After spending 22 years in solitary confinement, Anthony Gay is trying to make sure no other prisoner in Illinois has to experience the same level of trauma that he went through.. Gay is the face ...

The tragic suicide of 22-year old Kalief Browder shocked the country. Browder was arrested at 16 and spent years at the Rikers Island jail, including 800 days in solitary confinement. He was never ...

Juvenile room confinement be used as a last resort — and never for punishment, retaliation by staff, or as a matter of administrative convenience; ...

Young Nebraskans were confined for 119,293 hours in reporting detention facilities for Fiscal Year 2023-2024. That's compared to nearly 57,000 hours facilities reported in the previous year.

Young Nebraskans were confined for 119,293 hours in reporting detention facilities for Fiscal Year 2023-2024. That's compared to nearly 57,000 hours facilities reported in the previous year.

He eventually spent 108 days in pretrial confinement. Ochoa was placed in pretrial confinement for refusing commanders’ orders to return to her room about three weeks after she was caught with ...

Room confinement looks a bit different at each facility where kids are held. At the YRTC in Kearney, where Lowman’s son is in custody, the boys get taken from open barracks-style housing units ...

1. There was a striking increase in the total number of juvenile room confinement hours and incidents. Across all reporting facilities, youth were confined for 119,293 total hours in FY 2023-2024 ...

Statewide, solitary confinement, officially called room confinement, has spiked at county- and state-run facilities, according to a report. Officials say solitary is sometimes necessary, ...