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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

Late last year, we made several requests to be permitted, as members of the press, to view solitary confinement units in New York’s state prisons. After receiving no reply, we were fortunate enough to enlist the help of a pro bono attorney, Daniel Mulkoff with the firm of Cuti Hecker and Wang, who approached the New […]

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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

New York Prisons Bar Media from Solitary Confinement Units

On the Way to Solitary, Women in Massachusetts Jail Get Strip Searched and Videotaped

Seven Days in Solitary [5/11/14]

Voices from Solitary: Analyzing Isolation, Part I

Seven Days in Solitary [4/20/14]

UN Investigator Says Long-Term Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons Is Torture

Voices from Solitary: “Mind Blowing Because I’m a Kid”

Immigrant Hunger Strikers Placed in Solitary Confinement at Federal Detention Center

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part V

Severely Disabled Man Sues New York State Prisons for Neglect, Abuse

Voices from Solitary: TV Death Row

Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [3/9/14]

Way Down in the Hole: Senate Hearing Challenges Solitary Confinement for Some, But Not All

ADX H-Unit on Hunger Strike, Prisoners Being Force-Fed

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

At Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons, Advocates Challenge “Reforms”

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/14]

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

New York Lawmakers Introduce Bill to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [2/2/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/26/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/13]

New Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil

Mentally Ill in South Carolina’s Prisons Suffer Decades of Abuse and Neglect

War [on Crime] Is Over — If You Want It

Seven Days in Solitary [12/15/13]

Women in Solitary Confinement: Sent to Solitary for Reporting Sexual Assault

Voices from Solitary: “Finally Out and Among the Living”