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Esther Lim, a social worker employed by the ACLU to monitor LA County jails, was meeting with an incarcerated man in an attorney meeting room in 2011 when she heard what sounded like a fight. She looked through a window to see two deputies repeatedly beating an incarcerated man, James Parker, and shocking him with […]

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“Witness to Human Torture”: On Both Sides of the Prison Walls, Social Workers Confront Solitary Confinement

Court Rulings Against Canada’s Use of Solitary Confinement Could Set New Standards for Reform

Seven Days in Solitary [8/31/20]

A Watershed Year in the Movement to Stop Solitary Confinement

New Report Shows Devastating Impact of Solitary Confinement on Incarcerated People with Physical Disabilities

Settlement Limits Solitary Confinement for People With Mental Illness in Indiana’s Prisons

Children Held in Solitary Confinement in Nebraska for “Days, Weeks, Even Months”

Montana Settlement Limits Solitary Confinement for Juveniles, Prisoners with Mental Illness

Testimony from Hearing on Closure of Tamms Supermax Prison

Children in Solitary

Mothers with Sons in Solitary Tell Their Stories

At U.N. Prisoners’ Rights Meeting, U.S. Resists Limits on Solitary Confinement

ACLU Says Teen Tortured at Montana Prison

Law Aimed at Silencing People Convicted of Crimes Is Declared Unconstitutional

UN’s “Mandela Rules” to Set New International Limits on Solitary Confinement

In Open Letter to President Obama, Groups Push for Solitary Confinement Reforms

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America’s Official Child Abuse

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

New Report Documents the “Waste, Cost and Harm” of Solitary Confinement in Texas

At Ohio’s Supermax Prison, a Hunger Strike Ends But Extreme Isolation Remains

Lawsuit Charges Delaware Prison System With Neglect and Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill

Freed from an Iranian Prison, Sarah Shourd Speaks Out for U.S. Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Immigrant Hunger Strikers Placed in Solitary Confinement at Federal Detention Center

Florida Bill Would Limit Use of Solitary Confinement on Children

Solitary Confinement Comes to Capitol Hill

Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer — and Die — in Arizona’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Lawsuit Charges Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment

UN Human Rights Council Considers Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons

National and International Events Challenging Use of Solitary Confinement