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This article is co-published with The Appeal. In February, a violent fight broke out in the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a federal jail in Brooklyn. It left people like Sean Chaney, who was released in January after spending 15 months in MDC, scrambling to learn the status of his friend and former cellmate, who was […]

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Lockdowns, Violence, and “Barbaric Conditions” in a Brooklyn Federal Jail Known for Its Famous Detainees

Lawsuit Accuses New York Prisons of Illegally Putting Disabled People in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

After Nine Studies, Use of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons Just Keeps Increasing

UPDATE: Advocates Respond to New Executive Order, Urge Biden to Take Far Bolder Steps to End Federal Solitary Confinement

Will Biden Step Up on Solitary Confinement?

Seven Days in Solitary [2/1/21]

As COVID-19 Spreads Through Prisons, Solitary Confinement Is Used to Punish Whistleblowers and Suppress Protests

Where the Democratic Presidential Candidates Stand on Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [9/04/2016]

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

Seven Days in Solitary [8/9/2015]

Obama, in Criminal Justice Speech, Denounces the “Overuse of Solitary Confinement” in U.S. Prisons

Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison

ADX H-Unit on Hunger Strike, Prisoners Being Force-Fed

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

Voices from Solitary: Life in H-Unit, ADX Federal Supermax

Under Fire, Federal Bureau of Prisons Audits Use of Solitary Confinement—and Buys a New Supermax Prison

Pat Nolan’s Evangelical Prison Reform

GAO Report Questions Widespread Use of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons

Feds to Open New Supermax Prison Cells at “Gitmo North”

Federal Bureau of Prisons to Undergo Review of Solitary Confinement Practices

From BOP to CCA: Federal Prison Director Defects to Private Prison Company

No Budget Cuts for Federal Prisons