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Over the past year, the New York City Department of Corrections (NYCDOC) has quietly implemented a massive expansion in the number of solitary confinement units on Rikers Island. By the end of 2011, the number of “punitive segregation” cells at Rikers will have grown by 45 percent, from 681 to a total of 990 cells. Some of […]

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City to Sharply Increase Solitary Confinement on Rikers Island

New Video: UN Torture Expert Juan Mendez on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Hank Skinner’s Dispatches from Texas Death Row

Freed from an Iranian Prison, Sarah Shourd Speaks Out for U.S. Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “There Must Never Be A Time When We Fail To Protest”

New Video: Charlie and Pauline Sullivan of C.U.R.E.

Tuesday Night in NYC: Forum on Solitary Confinement Features UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

Pennsylvania Prisoners Charged with Rioting After Protesting Conditions in Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Letter from Calipatria Prison Hunger Strikers

Federal Judge Rules 28 Years in Solitary Confinement Not “Extreme,” Dismisses Silverstein Case

California Department of Corrections Threatens Prison Hunger Strikers, Bans Lawyers

New Video: ACLU Launches “Stop Solitary” Campaign

Abu Ghraib, California: Report Shows Brutal Abuse of Prisoners in LA County Jails

Abu Ghraib on the Allegheny: Sexual and Physical Abuse at Pennsylvania Prison

Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

NYC Bar Association Issues Report on “The Brutality of Supermax Confinement”

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement and the Law

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

“I Never Will Abandon This Hope”: Testimony of a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker on Solitary Confinement

“Where Punishment Becomes Torture”: Testimony of Dorsey Nunn on Solitary Confinement

“A Form of Torture”: Testimony of Laura Magnani on Solitary Confinement

“The Destruction of the Human Spirit”: Testimony of Rev. William McGarvey on Solitary Confinement

Illinois Prisoner Says Years of Solitary Confinement Caused Mental Illness, Self-Mutilation

Historic California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker