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Four years ago today, approximately 6,600 people in California prisons launched a hunger strike in protest of long-term solitary confinement. The protest would be the first of three large-scale actions by state prisoners to bring awareness to the issue of long-term solitary confinement. At the epicenter was Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, home of […]

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After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

In Landmark Settlement, Solitary Confinement to Be Dramatically Reduced in California Prisons

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

Judge Rules Against Colorado Supermax That Keeps Prisoners Indoors for Years

New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard

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

Massachusetts Court Rules Against Solitary Confinement Without Due Process

The Ten Worst Prisons in America

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

Torture on Death Row: Court Rules Against Automatic Use of Solitary Confinement for the Condemned

America’s “Most Isolated Man” Sues the Bureau of Prisons

Solitary Not Yet Over at Rikers, But Advocates Keep Fighting

At Ohio’s Supermax Prison, a Hunger Strike Ends But Extreme Isolation Remains

Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement for Reading Materials, Other Minor Infractions

Due Process Rights Routinely Suppressed in California Prisons

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

New Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil

Judge Rules California Solitary Confinement Lawsuit Should Have Its Day in Court

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Historic California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

The Truth About Solitary Confinement in California

Illinois Governor Proposes Closing Controversial Tamms Supermax Prison

Federal Judge: Extended Solitary Confinement Causes “Lasting Psychological Damage and Emotional Harm”

“The Gray Box”: Must-Read Article (Plus Video) on Solitary Confinement in America

The Guantánamos Next Door

California Considers New Rules for Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

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