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A report released yesterday by the ACLU National Prison Project and ACLU of Southern California shows a pattern of brutal abuse in the Los Angeles County Jail system, which at times crossed the line into torture. The abuse has been carried out by the sheriff’s deputies in charge of prisoners in the county’s jails, who according to eyewitnesses have […]

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

Abu Ghraib on the Allegheny: Sexual and Physical Abuse at Pennsylvania Prison

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement and the Law

Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

NYC Bar Association Issues Report on “The Brutality of Supermax 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

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

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

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

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

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”

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

ACLU Takes a Strong Stand Against Solitary Confinement

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

Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

Former Detainee Describes Solitary Confinement at Guantanamo