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Update (February 13): Theresa Cisneros, Public Information Officer at Corcoran, confirmed to Solitary Watch that Christian Gomez, 27, was hunger striking at the time of his death in the Administrative Segregation Unit. Official autopsy results still pending. Nancy Kincaid of California Correctional Health Care Services told Solitary Watch that Gomez had been “medically monitored for hunger strike […]

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Update: Prisoner Dies During Hunger Strike at California’s Corcoran State Prison

How Many Prisoners Are in Solitary Confinement in the United States?

The Guantánamos Next Door

California Considers New Rules for Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

California Bill Would Increase Media Access to Prisoners

New Video: National Religious Campaign Against Torture Takes a Stand on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Christmas in the Hole, 1968

Voices from Solitary: Message from the Father of a California Prison Hunger Striker

Voices from Solitary: “There Must Never Be A Time When We Fail To Protest”

Voices from Solitary: “We Will Not Stop Until We Are Heard”

Voices from Solitary: Letter from Calipatria Prison Hunger Strikers

California Department of Corrections Threatens Prison Hunger Strikers, Bans Lawyers

Voices from Solitary: Loneliness and Solitude

Abu Ghraib, California: Report Shows Brutal Abuse of Prisoners in LA County Jails

Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: The “Life Negating Emptiness” of the Pelican Bay SHU

The Truth About Solitary Confinement in California

California Teachers Union Letter of Support for Educational Programming in Solitary Confinement

“I Never Will Abandon This Hope”: Testimony of a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker on Solitary Confinement

“Where Punishment Becomes Torture”: Testimony of Dorsey Nunn on Solitary Confinement

“A Form of Torture”: Testimony of Laura Magnani on Solitary Confinement

Voices From Solitary: Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Was “the Only Way to Get the Word Out” About Prison Abuses

Pelican Bay Prisoners Plan to Resume Hunger Strike

“The Destruction of the Human Spirit”: Testimony of Rev. William McGarvey on Solitary Confinement

“Pawns in a Failed Experiment”: Testimony of Dr. Craig Haney on Solitary Confinement

“Toxic Conditions”: Testimony of Dr. Terry Kupers on Solitary Confinement

Historic California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere”

Washington Post Takes a Stand Against the “Invisible Brutality That Is Solitary Confinement”