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Update August 19, 10:45 am: Chelsea Manning was found guilty at her disciplinary hearing on Tuesday but avoided a sentence of solitary confinement. “I was found guilty of all four charges at today’s board; I am receiving 21 days of restrictions on recreation – no gym, library or outdoors,” announced a tweet from her official Twitter […]

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Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement for Reading Materials, Other Minor Infractions

Can International Laws and Standards Help Curb Solitary Confinement in the United States?

Voices from Solitary: A Second-by-Second Attack on Your Soul

British Supreme Court Rules Against Unlawful Use of Prolonged Solitary Confinement

UN’s “Mandela Rules” to Set New International Limits on Solitary Confinement

Kafka and the Debate Over Solitary Confinement

Irish Court Blocks Suspect’s Extradition to U.S., Citing Risk of Solitary Confinement

After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

Will Revamped Prison Regulations Reduce Solitary Confinement in California?

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Invites Constitutional Challenge of Solitary Confinement

Will Lawsuits and Exposés Lead to Reform of Florida’s Brutal Prisons?

Federal Judge Orders Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Released After 43 Years in Solitary

New Report Documents Brutal Treatment of People with Mental Illness in U.S. Prisons and Jails

Law Aimed at Silencing People Convicted of Crimes Is Declared Unconstitutional

At Ohio’s Supermax Prison, a Hunger Strike Ends But Extreme Isolation Remains

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy: “Solitary Confinement Literally Drives Men Mad”

Audit of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons: An Inside Job Reaches Foregone Conclusions

In Canada, a Death in Prison Sparks Debate, Lawsuits Over Solitary Confinement

Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Shackling While Pregnant or Sick

New Report Documents the “Waste, Cost and Harm” of Solitary Confinement in Texas

Solitary Not Yet Over at Rikers, But Advocates Keep Fighting

Civil and Human Rights Groups to Eric Holder: No New Federal Supermax Prison at Thomson

Corrections Officer Found Guilty in Death in a Rikers Island Solitary Cell

Arizona Opens New $50M Supermax Prison; Report Denounces State’s Use of Solitary

After 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Will the Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Be a Free Man?

UN Committee on Torture Questions U.S. Record on Solitary Confinement

On Trial for Protesting Conditions in Solitary Confinement: The Case of the Dallas 6

Pope Francis Denounces Solitary Confinement, Calls for Prison Conditions That “Respect Human Dignity”