Chelsea Manning describes her horrible solitary confinement, in which she was constantly watched and forbidden to lie down or sit against the wall for 17 hours each day.

Trump, the union buster.

What Trump says doesn't mean much, but we can get an idea of how he wants to treat workers from the way he treats the workers in his hotel.

Some European countries have isolated jihadi prisoners to stop them from spreading their ideology to other prisoners.

Isolation from other prisoners does not have to mean isolation from everyone. In principle, this does not have to be solitary confinement — it could be like the prison Anders Breivik is in (which seems acceptable to me). In practice, it tends to be almost solitary confinement.

Turkish Journalists Accuse Erdoğan of Media Witch-Hunt.

The FBI imposes secrecy about use of stingrays (fake cell towers for snooping on people) on state and local thugs, even when this requires cases to be thrown out.

However, it is quite possible that this secrecy enables them to illegally deny the use of stingrays in cases where they did use them.