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Today, some inmates in the Security Housing Units (SHUs) at Pelican Bay and Calipatria State Prisons in California will resume a hunger strike demanding reforms ranging from nutritious meals to reducing the use of long-term solitary confinement. In response to a three-week hunger strike this past summer, the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee held a hearing on […]

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Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

California Teachers Union Letter of Support for Educational Programming in Solitary Confinement

“Pawns in a Failed Experiment”: Testimony of Dr. Craig Haney on Solitary Confinement

City Responds on Emergency Plans for Rikers Island

New from Solitary Watch: Original Videos on Solitary Confinement

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

Maine Reduces Use of Solitary Confinement

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

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

From BOP to CCA: Federal Prison Director Defects to Private Prison Company

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

Report from Panel Discussion on Prison Isolation Units

Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs

The Scott Sisters’ “Debt to Society” and the New Jim Crow

Georgia Prisoners’ Strike: “We locked ourselves down.”

ACLU and Experts Slam Findings of Colorado DOC Report On Solitary Confinement

Cash-Strapped California to Spend $500 Million for New “Condemned Inmate Complex” (Death Row)

Another Prisoner With Mental Illness Dies in Isolation

Lockdown Fuels “Cycle of Violence” at Federal Prison

All-American Prison Torture

“Outsourcing Punishment” and the Privatization of Justice

Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical Ethics”

Private Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots

A Supermax Prisoner’s Film from Hell

Two Inmates Die in Agony As Prison Staff Stands By

No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confinement

Cash-Strapped Colorado Comes Up With Funds for New Supermax

Maine Legislature Votes to Study Solitary Confinement Practices–But Not to Change Them