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Editor’s Note: The latest issue of Mother Jones magazine includes James Ridgeway’s long article on Burl Cain, warden of the nation’s largest prison, and possibly its most notorious. The former slave plantation is known for the fact that 90 percent of its more than 5,000 prisoners will die behind bars, and also for holding two […]

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“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

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

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

America’s Most Isolated Federal Prisoner Describes 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs

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

New Resources on Solitary Confinement

On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Selective Outrage

Georgia Prisoners’ Strike: “We locked ourselves down.”

“Fatal Flaws” in the Colorado Solitary Confinement Study

All-American Prison Torture

Another Prisoner With Mental Illness Dies in Isolation

Cash-Strapped California to Spend $500 Million for New “Condemned Inmate Complex” (Death Row)

Psychiatrists on Solitary Confinement

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells

“I Spent 29 Years in Solitary Confinement”

Voices from Solitary: Supermaxed Out in Colorado