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A report released yesterday by the Human Rights Coalition, a nonprofit organization concerned with prisoners’ rights, provides a vivid and grim picture of life inside the solitary confinement unit of the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon in south-central Pennsylvania. The report describes what it calls a “culture of terror” in the prison’s Restricted Housing Unit (RHU). For purposes […]

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Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Easter As a Story of Criminal Injustice

Isolation Units Within U.S. Prisons: CCR Panel Discussion in San Francisco

Prisoner Grievances: “The System for Going Up Against the System”

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

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

Prison Whistleblower Condemned to Solitary Confinement

Our Homegrown American Gitmos

The Colorado Files: Ballot Measure Would Keep Poor Defendants in Jail

Voices from Solitary: Letters from the Hole

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

Voices from Solitary: Katfish on Life in “The Bucket”

“Outsourcing Punishment” and the Privatization of Justice

Obama’s First Military Tribunal: Child Soldier Tortured at Bagram and Gitmo

Voices from Solitary: Gang “Validation” and Permanent Isolation in California Prisons

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

Due Process Rights Routinely Suppressed in California Prisons

Judge Rules Procedures at Tamms Supermax Violate Constitution

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

Super-Secretive Supermax Prisons: Last Day to Register Opposition

Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

Storming “Little Gitmo”: Lawsuit Challenges Restricted Units in Federal Prisons

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

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

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