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Update, 8/22/14: On Thursday, August 21, the New York City Council passed legislation introduced by Councilman Danny Dromm of Queens that would require corrections officials to release quarterly reports documenting information about inmates being held in solitary confinement at Rikers Island jail. Presenting this information to the New York City Board of Corrections would create increased transparency […]

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

The End of Tamms Supermax

Opposing the Architecture of Isolation: Architects Against Solitary Confinement

Prison Health Care: Is the American Health Profession Ignoring a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight?

Controversy Erupts at Public Meeting on New Rikers Island Isolation Units

Colorado State Penitentiary II Opens With 300 New Solitary Confinement Cells

Federal Bureau of Prisons Details Plans for Limited “Audit” of Solitary Confinement Practices

Controversial Colorado Study Shows Prisoners “Improve” in Solitary Confinement

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

Richard Ross Photographs Children in Solitary Confinement

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Inside the American Supermax

Kafka and the Debate Over Solitary Confinement

Report Blasts Conditions at District of Columbia Jail

With New Report, Prison Officials Commit to Reducing Their Use of Solitary Confinement

Private Prison Giant CCA Weighs in on Solitary Confinement

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

Lawsuit Filed Against Solitary Confinement of 800 “Seriously Mentally Ill” in Pennsylvania

As 30,000 Join California Prison Hunger Strike, Corrections Officials Issue Guidelines on Starvation

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/7/13]

Prison Myth No. 1: “Prisoners Want to Go Into Solitary Confinement”

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

How to Create Madness in Prison

National and International Events Challenging Use of Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement in Virginia’s Prisons

Solitary Confinement on Rikers Island: An Interview with the Prisoners Rights Project

Reducing Solitary Confinement in Maine

New Study: Solitary Confinement Overused in Colorado

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