Civil Liberties/Civil Rights Archives - Page 4 of 13

Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • The New York Times published an op-ed by Harvey Fierstein about the 16-year-old girl currently being held in solitary confinement in a Connecticut prison, despite the fact that she […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

Seven Days in Solitary [5/18/14]

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