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Over the last two weeks, the ACLU has adopted a much more vigorous stance against solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. It has launched a listserv to bring together lawyers, activists, scholars, journalists, and others interested in the subject, and asked the UN Human Rights Council to look into solitary’s torturous effects on prisoners in the United States. […]

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Cost/Budget Issues

ACLU Takes a Strong Stand Against Solitary Confinement

Bill to Limit Solitary Confinement Introduced in Colorado Legislature

“Smart on Crime” Coalition Declares “Isolated Confinement Is Overused and Harmful”

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

Criminalizing Mental Illness

Angola Prison May Close Lockdown Unit–But Vows to Keep Inmates in Isolation

Obama and Bureau of Prisons Lowball Supermax Costs

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

Voices from Solitary: “Geezer in the Hole”

Colorado State Penitentiary II Opens With 300 New Solitary Confinement Cells

“Outsourcing Punishment” and the Privatization of Justice

“Epidemic” of Suicides in Massachusetts Prisons

Pennsylvania Legislators Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Due Process Rights Routinely Suppressed in California Prisons

Voices from Solitary: Supermaxed Out in Colorado

Two for One: Guantanamo Won’t Close, But Illinois Supermax Will Open

No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confinement

Cash-Strapped Colorado Comes Up With Funds for New Supermax

For Jamie Scott, an $11 Robbery in Mississippi May Carry a Death Sentence

No Obama Budget Freeze for Prisons

Incarceration Nation

Kids Languish in Solitary While Awaiting Trial in Colorado

The Maine Redemption: Bill Seeks to Restrict Use of Solitary in State’s Prisons

A Lonely–and Preventable–Death in a Vermont Prison

Rising Criticism of Tamms Illinois Supermax