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The Associated Press has reported that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is reforming its policies regarding the controversial Security Housing Units (SHUs), where thousands of inmates are held in solitary confinement for an average of 6.8 years. According to the AP: Gang members would no longer have to renounce their gang membership. […]

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California Announces Reform of Controversial Policies That Led to Prison Hunger Strike

North Carolina Prisoners Report Being Put in Solitary Confinement for Going on Strike

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

Solitary Confinement in New York (and in the New York Times)

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in California Respond to Prison Policy Reforms

Federal Judge Criticizes Supermax Confinement in Colorado

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in Ohio Stage Two-Week Hunger Strike

Congress Unlocks America’s Hidden Shame of Solitary Confinement

One Year Anniversary of Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement

Guantanamo “Is Not an Aberration”: How the War on Terror Came Home

“New York’s Black Sites”: New Article About Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Shutting Down a Supermax: An Interview With Alan Mills of the Uptown People’s Law Center

Washington Prisoner Subjected to Solitary Confinement for “Involuntary Protection”

One Year After Historic Hunger Strike, Isolated California Prisoners Report Little Change

Political or Gang Activity? “New Afrikan” Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Texas Hearing Finds Prisoners Released from Solitary Directly to the Streets

Solitary Policies in California Revised, As Prisoner Leaders Promote End to Racial Hostilities

New Report Calls for End to Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention

Unlock the Box: The Fight Against Solitary Confinement in New York

Former Hostage in Iran Reports on Solitary Confinement in California

NYCLU Files Suit Challenging Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Members of Congress Call for Investigation of Louisiana’s Use of Solitary Confinement, Treatment of Angola 3

After 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Will the Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Be a Free Man?

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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

Twelve Years in Solitary, and “Still in Illegal Limbo”

Law Aimed at Silencing People Convicted of Crimes Is Declared Unconstitutional