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An important new report on solitary confinement was released today by the New York Civil Liberties Union, titled Boxed In: The True Cost of Extreme Isolation in New York’s Prisons. Based on a year of research, correspondence with more than a hundred prisoners, and multiple open records requests, this report offers a detailed and powerful picture of how solitary confinement […]

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Unlock the Box: The Fight Against Solitary Confinement in New York

Former Hostage in Iran Reports on Solitary Confinement in California

The 2 Million Swing State Voters Who Won’t Be Voting Today

Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement

Bradley Manning’s Torture in Solitary Confinement Is Subject of Pre-Trial Hearing

NYCLU Files Suit Challenging Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

WikiLeakers Held in Solitary Confinement

On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Selective Outrage

At U.N. Prisoners’ Rights Meeting, U.S. Resists Limits on Solitary Confinement

Tracking the Rise of Solitary Confinement in America–and of the Struggle Against It

New Mexico Man Gets $15.5 Million for His Two-Year Ordeal in Solitary

Members of Congress Call for Investigation of Louisiana’s Use of Solitary Confinement, Treatment of Angola 3

“This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse”: An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

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

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

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

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

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Women Prisoners in Virginia Segregated for Having Mental Illness or “Looking Butch”

Rastafarians Spend a Decade in Solitary for Refusing Haircuts

The Hashmi Case Brings Guantanamo Home

The End of Tamms Supermax

Twelve Years in Solitary, and “Still in Illegal Limbo”

Bradley Manning Marks 1,000 Days in Pre-Trial Detention

Guarding the Fortresses: How Prison Policies Limit Media Access to Solitary Confinement

Thirty Days in Solitary

Twenty Years After the Lucasville Uprising, Trying to Tell the Story

U.S. DOJ Documents Torturous Treatment in Pennsylvania Solitary Confinement Unit