The Special Housing Unit (known as the “SHU” or the “hole”) is a mythical place in prison. Only a small percentage of the inmate population has ever visited there, but stories of the deprivation ...

A CBS News investigation found discrepancies between the government's description of the Jeffrey Epstein jail video and what ...

That is the other side of this story. Special Housing Units are for inmates who are a danger to others and themselves. No one serves time there without cause.

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Sean "Diddy" Combs is being held in a special housing unit away from the general population in the federal Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn amid fears for his safety. The disgraced music ...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: By early next year, Colorado plans to create special housing units in two prisons just for transgender women. This is part of a new legal settlement.

In 2014, the city opened a transgender housing unit with 30 beds on Rikers Island, but it closed in July 2015 for renovations and never reopened, said a spokesperson for the Department of Corrections.

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: By early next year, Colorado plans to create special housing units in two prisons just for transgender women. This is part of a new legal settlement.