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Guest Post by Bonnie Kerness Editor’s Note: As coordinator of the American Friends Service Committee’s Prison Watch Project, Bonnie Kerness is a leading voice for humanitarian reform of U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers. Kerness is also a pioneer in raising awareness about the use of prolonged solitary confinement, and in uncompromisingly identifying the practice […]

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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

The Hidden History of Solitary Confinement in New Jersey’s Control Units

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

Journalists Barred from Prison Isolation Units

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

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

Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash With Prison Reform

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

The End of Tamms Supermax

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

NYCLU Files Suit Challenging Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Massachusetts Court Rules Against Solitary Confinement Without Due Process

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

Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement

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

Mentally Ill Man Dies, Injured and Alone, in a Tulsa Jail Cell

Former Hostage in Iran Reports on Solitary Confinement in California

Extradited to a Future of Torture in a U.S. Supermax Prison

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

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

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hear Testimony on the Torture of Solitary Confinement

Mumia Abu-Jamal Challenges Death Row Solitary Confinement and Life Without Parole

Portrait of a Prison Whistleblower—and His Punishment

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Judge Rules Against Colorado Supermax That Keeps Prisoners Indoors for Years

Teen Dies in Solitary in Georgia Jail After Alleged Medical Neglect

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

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

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