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“The most locked-down state in the nation” is how Robert Perkinson, author of the book Texas Tough, describes the Lone Star state. Texas, he writes, has “led the way in criminal justice severity” in everything from executions to trying juvenile as adults – and solitary confinement is no exception. In 2010, Texas held 8,701 of its […]

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Texas Lockdown: Solitary Confinement in the Lone Star State

Easter As a Story of Criminal Injustice

Supreme Court Rules Against Exonerated Death Row Inmate, for Prosecutors Who Withheld Evidence

Voices from Solitary: Lane Nelson on Angola’s Death Row

Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs

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

Ohio Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike for Transfer from Solitary to Death Row

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Wilbert Rideau on Solitary Confinement: “The Zenith in Human Cruelty”

The Solitary Men of Texas Death Row

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

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

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

Voices from Solitary: Life on Level 3, Texas Death Row

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

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

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”

Voices from Solitary: New Memoir by Wilbert Rideau

Live from Death Row: 3,600 Americans Waiting Alone to Die

The Machinery of Death: Some Death Row Prisoners Can Still Opt for Firing Squad (or Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, or Noose)

Dead Man Killing Himself

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Georgia’s Response to Death Row Suicides: Restrict Family Visits

Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners

The Mark of Cain: God and Man at Angola Prison

A Louisiana Inmate’s Death Wish