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On September 20, 2011, at 10:55 pm in the Psychiatric Services Unit of California State Prison, Sacramento, a guard was completing his rounds checking on patients in the unit. Locked in solitary confinement, but allowed 10 hours of recreation a week as well as some group activities, prisoners held in these units have been diagnosed […]

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Suicide in Solitary: The Life and Death of Armando Cruz (Part 1)

Voices from Solitary: Haunted by Memory’s Ghosts

Prisoner at Corcoran State Prison Commits Suicide in Solitary

Former Hostage in Iran Reports on Solitary Confinement in California

California Prisoners Launch New Hunger Strike on October 10th

Amnesty International Releases Report Condemning California Prison Isolation Units

Solitary Policies in California Revised, As Prisoner Leaders Promote End to Racial Hostilities

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Political or Gang Activity? “New Afrikan” Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

One Year After Historic Hunger Strike, Isolated California Prisoners Report Little Change

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

Voices from Solitary: Can’t You Hear Us?

One Year Anniversary of Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Isolated for Having a “Gang” Calendar

A Day in the Life of Three Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

California Bill Would Lift Media Ban on Access to Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “The SHU Is California’s Equivalent of Waterboarding”

Controversy Over Kids in Solitary Confinement in Texas

Pelican Bay Prisoners File Lawsuit Against Long-Term Isolation

Voices from Solitary: A Lose-Lose Situation

Children in Solitary

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in California Respond to Prison Policy Reforms

Families of California Prisoners Respond to Controversial Reforms of Solitary Confinement

Pelican Bay SHU Prisoners Respond to California’s Proposed Prisons Reforms

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

California Announces Reform of Controversial Policies That Led to Prison Hunger Strike

Family of California Prisoner Who Died on Hunger Strike Speaks Out

“Occupy” Prison Protests in California Oppose Use of Solitary Confinement

Conflicting Reports on Hunger Strike at California’s Corcoran State Prison