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This story originally appeared on Waging Nonviolence. A group of prisoners’ rights activists didn’t stop a new isolation unit from being approved on January 13, but they did manage to push through some changes to the proposal, as well as long-overdue limitations to solitary confinement at Rikers Island, New York City’s massive island jail complex. […]

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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”

Voices from Solitary: Survivors Speak

U.S. Government Tells UN: “No Systematic Use of Solitary Confinement in the United States”

In the Story of Jonah, an Urgent Lesson About the Dangers of Solitary Confinement

American Experts Urge British Not to Believe What They Hear About US Prison Conditions

Pennsylvania Prison System Faces Lawsuit Over Suicide of Young Man with Mental Illness

New York City Officials and Advocates Push for Change to the “Culture of Brutality” on Rikers Island

Civil Rights Groups Demand Change for Transgender Women Held in Solitary in New York’s Prisons

Transgender Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Sexual Assault

Voices from Solitary: Testimony of a Jailhouse Lawyer

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/20/14]

Federal Supermax Prison “in Violation of International Law”: Amnesty International

Advisers to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hold Briefing on Juvenile Solitary Confinement in New York

Ninety Years Old, Deaf, and in the Hole in a Florida Prison

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

Prayers for People in Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [6/22/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]

Voices from Solitary: Playing “The Con Game” at Pelican Bay

Seven Days in Solitary [5/25/14]

Holder Makes Obama Administration’s First Public Statement on Solitary Confinement