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According to Congressional testimony released yesterday, the former official in Bush’s Justice Department who co-authored the most famous of the “torture memos,” said he had sanctioned certain harsh “interrogation techniques” used by the CIA on terrorism suspects, but not others. As the Los Angeles Times reported, “Jay S. Bybee, former head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, said in […]

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“Torture Memo” Author Says He Authorized Waterboarding, But Not “Extended Solitary Confinement”

A Supermax Prisoner’s Film from Hell

Clarence Thomas “Outraged” by Treatment of His Nephew, But Condones the Same for Thousands of Others

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Louisiana Jail Locks Up Suicidal Prisoners in 3′ x 3′ Cages

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

Two Inmates Die in Agony As Prison Staff Stands By

Two for One: Guantanamo Won’t Close, But Illinois Supermax Will Open

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

Court Rules Against Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Ray Luc Levasseur on Life in ADX

Prisoner Sent to Solitary Based on Reading Materials

Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude

“Extradition to a Future of Total Isolation” Opposed by British Human Rights Lawyer

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Super-Secretive Supermax Prisons: Last Day to Register Opposition

Abuse and Cover-Up in California Prisons’ “Behavior Management Units”

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown

Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

Storming “Little Gitmo”: Lawsuit Challenges Restricted Units in Federal Prisons

Federal Lawsuit Challenges 27 Years of Supermax Confinement

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

House Republicans Explain Why They Oppose Ban on Child Abuse in Schools

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement

For Jamie Scott, an $11 Robbery in Mississippi May Carry a Death Sentence