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“I’m here in a steel coffin,” Jessica Casanova’s nephew wrote to her from an isolation cell. “I’m breathing, but I’m dead.” Her nephew, she said, “has never been the same” after spending time in solitary confinement, and his experience compelled her to speak out for the thousands held in extreme isolation in New York’s prison and jails. Casanova was one of half a […]

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New York Lawmakers Introduce Bill to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement

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

Seven Days in Solitary [12/22/13]

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

Mandela in Solitary

“This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse”: An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

Voices from Solitary: “A Prison Where the Building Becomes the Shackles”

Federal Bureau of Prisons Details Plans for Limited “Audit” of Solitary Confinement Practices

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

Reports Condemn Solitary Confinement in New York City’s Jails, As Officials Weigh Its Future

Seven Days in Solitary [11/3/13]

Voices from Solitary: Solitary Confinement’s Invisible Scars

One Month After Historic Hunger Strike, California Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

New Project: Photo Requests from Solitary

California Prison Hunger Strike Ends After 60 Days

Day 59 of California Prison Hunger Strike: “Their Spirits Are High, Their Bodies Are Weak”

California Prison Hunger Strikers to Be Force-Fed

Day 41 of California Hunger Strike: CDCR Still Insists It’s A Gang Power Play

Voices from Solitary: The Torture Chamber

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

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

Calipatria Hunger Striker: “Putting Everything On The Line For Dignity”

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

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

California Prison Hunger Strike: “It’s an Absolute Madhouse”

California Prison Officials Retaliating Against Hunger Strikers

We Are One Body: Catholics Raise Voices Against Solitary Confinement

Faces and Voices of the California Prison Hunger Strike