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Our report on today’s hearing was published by Mother Jones. It starts out this way: The cell placed at the back of the hearing room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building was a pretty accurate replica of a real isolation cell—the kind that exists in supermax prisons and solitary confinement units all over the country. It […]

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Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Former Rikers Island Chaplain Speaks Out Against Growth of Solitary Confinement

Pelican Bay Prisoners File Lawsuit Against Long-Term Isolation

Montana Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer in Solitary Confinement

Federal Judge Criticizes Supermax Confinement in Colorado

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

New Film Explores “the Injustice of Solitary Confinement and the Transformative Power of Art”

“Complete Lawlessness” at Orleans Parish Prison

40 Years in Solitary: New BBC Program on the Angola 3 Case

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer — and Die — in Arizona’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Lawsuit Charges Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment

National and International Events Challenging Use of Solitary Confinement

Lawsuit Challenges South Carolina’s Use of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners with Mental Illness

New Report Shows Juvenile Lifers Suffering in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Message from the Father of a California Prison Hunger Striker

Federal Judge Rules 28 Years in Solitary Confinement Not “Extreme,” Dismisses Silverstein Case

New Video: ACLU Launches “Stop Solitary” Campaign

Abu Ghraib, California: Report Shows Brutal Abuse of Prisoners in LA County Jails

Abu Ghraib on the Allegheny: Sexual and Physical Abuse at Pennsylvania Prison

The Torture of Troy Davis

NYC Bar Association Issues Report on “The Brutality of Supermax Confinement”

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement and the Law

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

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

“Pawns in a Failed Experiment”: Testimony of Dr. Craig Haney on Solitary Confinement

“Toxic Conditions”: Testimony of Dr. Terry Kupers on Solitary Confinement

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison