2012 U.S. Senate Hearing: Archive of Written Testimony
Abu Ali Abdur’Rahman, prisoner on Tennessee death row
Dr. Everett D. Allen, former physician at Pelican Bay
Angela Allen-Bell, Southern University Law Center
American Civil Liberties Union
American Friends Service Committee
American Psychiatric Association
Stuart M. Andrews, Nelson Mullins, on behalf of class action clients
Louisa Botteri, mother of prisoner in solitary
Dolores Canales, mother of prisoner in solitary
Ronald Cauthern, prisoner on death row in Tennessee
Center for Children’s Law and Policy
Center for Constitutional Rights
Mary Chapman, mother of son who died in solitary at Tamms
Christy Chavez, wife of prisoner in solitary
Rev. Madeline Coburn, prison chaplain
Fred Cohen, expert on prisoners with mental illness
Correctional Association of New York
Janet Davis, mother of disabled prisoner in solitary
Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University
Shandre Delaney, mother of prisoner in solitary
Lois DeMott, Citizens for Prison Reform, mother of prisoner in solitary
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Barbara Fair, My Brother’s Keeper
Lori Fender, mother of prisoner
Gary L. Flakes, survivor of solitary confinement
Anthony Graves, Texas death row exoneree
Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt University
Vicky Gunderson, mother of teen who committed suicide in solitary
Virginia Gutierrez-Brown, wife of prisoner in solitary
Dr. Craig Haney, University of California-Santa Cruz
Human Rights Coalition Pennsylvania
Human Rights Project for Girls
Gabriel Huerta, Current Pelican Bay SHU prisoner
Innocence Project, statements of six exonerees who did time in solitary
Dr. Terry Kupers, Wright Institute
Legal Aid Society, Prisoners’ Rights Project
Alice and Staughton Lynd, lawyers and advocates for supermax prisoners
Enceno Macy (pen name), prisoner in solitary confinement
Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition (M-PAC)
Robert Martinez, prisoner in solitary at Penitentiary of New Mexico
Mental Health Alternatives to Solitary Confinement
Hope Metcalf and Judith Resnik, Yale Law School
Midwest Coalition for Human Rights
Nicole Miera, sister of teen who committed suicide in solitary
Glenn Miles, worked with prisoners
Diana and Terry Montes-Walker, parents of prisoner in solitary
Mothers of Incarcerated Sons Society (MISS) p.1 / p. 2 / p. 3 / p. 4
Michael B. Mushlin, Pace Law School
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
National Association of Social Workers
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Center for Transgender Equality
National Immigrant Justice Center
National Religious Campaign Against Torture
Brian Nelson, survivor of solitary confinement at Tamms
New York City Jails Action Coalition
New York Civil Liberties Union
Pacific Juvenile Defender Center
Annabelle Parker, friend of prisoners in solitary
Commissioner Joseph Ponte, Maine Department of Corrections
Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York
Rabbis for Human Rights-North America
Keramet Reiter, University of California, Irvine
Richa, survivor of solitary confinement
Paul Rogers, prisoner in solitary confinement in Pennsylvania (with picture)
Laura Rovner, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
Sharon Shalev, Centre for Criminology, Oxford University
Brenda Smith, Tamms Year Ten, loved one of prisoner in solitary
Carl ToerBijns, former deputy warden
Maligi Tuitasi, prisoner in solitary at Pelican Bay