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Reports from California Prison Focus, among other groups supporting prisoners on hunger strike in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU), confirm that the strikers last night agreed to begin eating. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reportedly made small concessions having to do with prisoners’ possessions and educational programming, and also promised a comprehensive review […]

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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

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

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

Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

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

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

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

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

Angola 3 Mark 39 Years in Solitary Confinement

Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Report from Panel Discussion on Prison Isolation Units

Congressional Briefing on Solitary Confinement to Take Place This Week

Isolation Units Within U.S. Prisons: CCR Panel Discussion in San Francisco

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

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

Voices from Solitary: Imprisoned in the First Control Unit for Women

ACLU Takes a Strong Stand Against Solitary Confinement

ACLU Urges UN to Take Action on Solitary Confinement in the United States

Former Detainee Describes Solitary Confinement at Guantanamo

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

Voices from Solitary: “Worse Than Angola”