September 2012 - Solitary Watch

On Thursday, September 27, Amnesty International published its report on the conditions of California’s supermax units, entitled The Edge of Endurance: Conditions in California’s Security Housing Units. The Security Housing Units (SHUs), which currently house over 3,000 inmates in predominantly single-cell isolation, hold inmates in small cells for at least 22 1/2 hours every day. The report notes […]

News & Features

Amnesty International Releases Report Condemning California Prison Isolation Units

New Report Calls for End to Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention

The Other Death Sentence: Aging and Dying in Prison

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

Solitary Policies in California Revised, As Prisoner Leaders Promote End to Racial Hostilities

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hear Testimony on the Torture of Solitary Confinement

New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard

Scientists Discover How Social Isolation Damages Young Brains

Mumia Abu-Jamal Challenges Death Row Solitary Confinement and Life Without Parole

Portrait of a Prison Whistleblower—and His Punishment

Pennsylvania Legislators to Hold Hearing on Solitary Confinement

“Total Isolation”: Solitary Confinement in Oregon

Tamms Supermax Prison Closure Temporarily Halted

Voices from Solitary: A Man’s Strength Behind a Steel Door

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Solitary Confinement: New York’s Hidden Problem

Texas Hearing Finds Prisoners Released from Solitary Directly to the Streets

Voices from Solitary: A Spark in the Dark