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Now available is the first of a series of fact sheets on various aspects of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. The two-page fact sheet is available as a PDF at the following link: FACT SHEET — Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement This fact sheet, which references research on how solitary confinement affects the mental health […]

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Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

Report from Panel Discussion on Prison Isolation Units

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs

Colorado Inmate Says He Was Thrown in Solitary for Refusing to Supply False Testimony

Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

New Resources on Solitary Confinement

If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

Supreme Court Decision Limits Juvenile Life Without Parole (Within Limits)

John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

Judge Rules Procedures at Tamms Supermax Violate Constitution

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

Storming “Little Gitmo”: Lawsuit Challenges Restricted Units in Federal Prisons

No Legal Defense for the Poor

“Torture Memo” Author Says He Authorized Waterboarding, But Not “Extended Solitary Confinement”

Clarence Thomas “Outraged” by Treatment of His Nephew, But Condones the Same for Thousands of Others

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

Prisoner Sent to Solitary Based on Reading Materials

“Extradition to a Future of Total Isolation” Opposed by British Human Rights Lawyer

Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude

Federal Lawsuit Challenges 27 Years of Supermax Confinement

Ask Shamu: The U.S. Tortures Both Human and Animal Prisoners

Cruel Punishment Is Not Unusual for Clarence Thomas

House Republicans Explain Why They Oppose Ban on Child Abuse in Schools