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The following post is a chapter from an unpublished book by Mary Buser, who worked in various capacities in the mental health system on Rikers Island. In Buser’s own words: “I worked in the Rikers Mental Health Department as a psychiatric social worker for five and a half years, leaving Rikers in 2000. I started off as a student intern […]

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Doing “Bing Time”: Memories of a Mental Health Worker in Rikers Island’s Solitary Confinement Unit

The Odyssey to Pelican Bay: Families Journey to California’s Notorious Supermax Prison

Hundreds Still on Hunger Strike in California Prisons As Situation Becomes Increasingly Dire

Faces and Voices of the California Prison Hunger Strike

For Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, A Year of Incremental Reform

Civil and Human Rights Groups to Eric Holder: No New Federal Supermax Prison at Thomson

Solitary Not Yet Over at Rikers, But Advocates Keep Fighting

Officials, Advocates Call for Restrictions on Solitary Confinement in Wisconsin

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

Legislation Limiting Solitary Confinement in New York Gains Momentum

Kalief Browder’s Life and Death Galvanize Action to End Solitary Confinement

Can International Laws and Standards Help Curb Solitary Confinement in the United States?

California Prison Hunger Strikes Sparked Solitary Reforms, Internal Documents Show

UN Committee on Torture Says U.S. Must Reform Its Use of Solitary Confinement

Working from the Inside Out

On Rikers Island, an End to the Solitary Confinement of Children

Immigrant Hunger Strikers Placed in Solitary Confinement at Federal Detention Center

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

As New York City Jails Amend Their Solitary Confinement Practices, Abuses on Rikers Island Continue

New Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil

Activists Urge U.S. Government to Grant UN Torture Expert Access to New York’s Prisons

In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

Board of Correction Votes Against Limiting Solitary Confinement in New York City Jails

California Prisoners Launch New Hunger Strike to Protest Solitary Confinement

As 30,000 Join California Prison Hunger Strike, Corrections Officials Issue Guidelines on Starvation

California Prison Officials Retaliating Against Hunger Strikers

30 Days of Hunger Striking, California Prisons Chief Insists It’s “Gang Power Play”

Day 36 of California Hunger Strike: Hundreds Still Protesting Isolation Policies

Day 39 of California Prison Hunger Strike: Governor Jerry Brown Remains Silent