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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday used long-term solitary confinement as evidence that the “idea of total incarceration just isn’t working.” Solitary “literally drives men mad,” Kennedy said, noting that more humane alternatives are employed elsewhere in the world. Kennedy’s comments were made during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the 2016 Budget Request for […]

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Supreme Court Justice Kennedy: “Solitary Confinement Literally Drives Men Mad”

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Invites Constitutional Challenge of Solitary Confinement

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

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America’s Official Child Abuse

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

“Systemic Failures Persist” in California Prison Mental Health Care, Judge Rules

Judge Rules Against Colorado Supermax That Keeps Prisoners Indoors for Years

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 “Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement”

Abuse and Cover-Up in California Prisons’ “Behavior Management Units”

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Illinois Prisoner Says Years of Solitary Confinement Caused Mental Illness, Self-Mutilation

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Severely Disabled Man Sues New York State Prisons for Neglect, Abuse

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

Federal Appeals Court Considers Tommy Silverstein’s 30 Years in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Angola 3’s Herman Wallace, Gravely Ill, Still Held in Isolation

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown

Children in Lockdown: Solitary Confinement of Teens in Adult Prisons

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

At Louisiana’s Angola Prison, Lawsuit Claims, the Sick Face Neglect, Isolation, and Death

Lawsuit Charges Delaware Prison System With Neglect and Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill

UN Committee on Torture Questions U.S. Record on Solitary Confinement

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Pennsylvania Prison System Faces Lawsuit Over Suicide of Young Man with Mental Illness

Holder Makes Obama Administration’s First Public Statement on Solitary Confinement

Mentally Ill in South Carolina’s Prisons Suffer Decades of Abuse and Neglect