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Today, dozens of advocates will travel from around the country to Washington, DC, to take part in what are called “Civil Society Consultations” with representatives of the U.S. government on the subject of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). As a signatory of CAT, the […]

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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

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

New Video: UN Torture Expert Juan Mendez on Solitary Confinement

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Pelican Bay Prisoners File Lawsuit Against Long-Term Isolation

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

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

European Human Rights Court Rules Terror Suspects Can Be Extradited to U.S. Supermax

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

Solitary Confinement Leads to Suffering and Suicide in Pennsylvania’s Prisons

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Children in Solitary

Transgender Immigrant Detainees Locked in Solitary Confinement

Federal Judge Criticizes Supermax Confinement in Colorado

Montana Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer in Solitary Confinement

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in Ohio Stage Two-Week Hunger Strike

First Congressional Hearing on Solitary Confinement to Be Held June 19

California Bill Would Lift Media Ban on Access to Prisons

Now Available: Collection of Written Testimony for Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Congress Unlocks America’s Hidden Shame of Solitary Confinement

Lawsuit Challenges Conditions at ADX Federal Supermax

Guantanamo “Is Not an Aberration”: How the War on Terror Came Home

“New York’s Black Sites”: New Article About Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Shutting Down a Supermax: An Interview With Alan Mills of the Uptown People’s Law Center

Defense Describes Bradley Manning’s “Unlawful Pretrial Punishment” in Solitary Confinement

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hear Testimony on the Torture of Solitary Confinement

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

New Report Calls for End to Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention