The small, steel cells — mottled with peeling paint, rust and water stains — house thin mattresses laid atop narrow metal frames. There is a toilet, a sink, a metal shelf and a wall-mounted desk/seat ...

Gary Harkins also spent decades inside an isolation unit -- as a correctional officer at the Oregon State Penitentiary. He says solitary... Working the Isolation Unit: A Prison Officer's Tale For 25 ...

With an 11-page, handwritten complaint, a convicted rapist in Georgia convinced a judge to investigate and eventually open to outsiders its solitary confinement unit, NBC News reported. Timothy Gumm ...