BOSTON (CBS) -- A play that prisoners' rights advocates hope will raise awareness about the practice of solitary confinement is coming to the Massachusetts State House this week. Julia Steele Allen ...

BOSTON (AP) — Multiple performances of a play about solitary confinement are scheduled across Massachusetts this week to bring attention to the practice in state prisons. “Mariposa and the Saint: From ...

Activist and performance artist Julia Steele Allen met Sara Fonseca in a California prison and corresponded with her for years while Fonseca— who goes by the nickname “Mariposa” — was living in ...

Sarah Shourd’s play “The Box” gives audiences a taste of the psychological horrors of solitary confinement and of the humanity of the people routinely subjected to the practice in American prisons.

The Prison Justice League will host two performances of the play Mariposa & the Saint: From Solitary Confinement, A Play through Letters. In 2012, Sara (Mariposa) Fonseca was sentenced to 15 months in ...

[Across the United States, around 80,000 prisoners are held in solitary confinement. This film was shot over three years in the Maine State Prison as it tried to reduce its use of solitary.] Sgt.