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Editor’s Note: The following prayers, along with more than a hundred others, were delivered to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on Thursday. The same small selection of prayers was printed in Solitary Watch’s latest quarterly print edition, which goes out to some 800 individuals currently in solitary confinement. The complete collection of prayers […]

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Prayers for People in Solitary Confinement

Holder Makes Obama Administration’s First Public Statement on Solitary Confinement

New York Prisons Bar Media from Solitary Confinement Units

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

Videos Show Abuse of Mentally Ill in California Prisons

Immigrant Hunger Strikers Placed in Solitary Confinement at Federal Detention Center

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

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

Florida Bill Would Limit Use of Solitary Confinement on Children

U.S. Holds Hundreds of Detained Immigrants in Solitary Confinement

New Report Criticizes Use of Solitary Confinement in New Mexico Prisons and Jails

Records Show Excessive Use of Force at Colorado Supermax

In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Federal Supermax Lawsuits

Federal Lawsuit Challenges Brutality in Solitary Confinement Unit at North Carolina Prison

Measure to Limit Solitary Confinement Advances in Senate Immigration Bill

Why Holder’s Pledge That Snowden “Will Not Be Tortured” Is a Lie

California Prison Hunger Strikers to Be Force-Fed

California Prison Hunger Strike Ends After 60 Days

New Directive May Curtail Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention

One Month After Historic Hunger Strike, California Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Reports Condemn Solitary Confinement in New York City’s Jails, As Officials Weigh Its Future

The Use of Isolation in U.S. Prisons: A Human Rights Issue

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/7/13]

Russell Maroon Shoatz: Resisting the “Spiritual Death” of Solitary Confinement

To See or Not to See: Capturing Herman Wallace’s 41 Years in Solitary

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

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