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While taking some vacation time, we missed this powerful opinion piece by Helen Redmond, which appeared last week on Al Jazeera English. It describes in visceral detail the brutality of life in America’s supermax prisons. “People walked by and asked: ‘How are you doing?’ I answered: ‘How am I supposed to be doing? That’s the […]

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Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

As Prisoners End Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay, Their Cause Continues

Statements from Human Rights and Civil Rights Groups Support Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers

Who Are the Hunger Strikers? How Prisoners Land in Pelican Bay’s SHU

Update: Pelican Bay Prisoners Reject State Proposal, Continue Hunger Strike

Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Solitary Confinement Widely Used in California’s Juvenile Jails

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Voices from Solitary: A Mother’s Story

Report from Panel Discussion on Prison Isolation Units

Prisoner Grievances: “The System for Going Up Against the System”

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs

Voices from Solitary: Letters from the Hole

Voices from Solitary: A Little Taste of “Freedom”

Cash-Strapped California to Spend $500 Million for New “Condemned Inmate Complex” (Death Row)

Voices from Solitary: Ara Oshagan Photographs California Juvies

Voices from Solitary: Gang “Validation” and Permanent Isolation in California Prisons

Due Process Rights Routinely Suppressed in California Prisons

Prison Heat: Hunger Strike Highlights Summer’s Deadly Toll on U.S. Inmates

Celebrities in Solitary: Lindsay Lohan Goes to Lockdown

Prisoner Sent to Solitary Based on Reading Materials