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Federal Prisons

This piece was written by Tewhan Butler, whose blog is featured on the site Live from Lockdown. A Bloods leader, he is 11 years into a 30-year sentence in federal prison on RICO charges. Since beginning his sentence, Butler has been in and out of solitary confinement in a series of prisons. In 2010, Butler was […]

Voices from Solitary

Federal Prisons

Voices from Solitary: Unnatural Disaster

Immigrant Hunger Strikers Placed in Solitary Confinement at Federal Detention Center

Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [3/9/14]

Way Down in the Hole: Senate Hearing Challenges Solitary Confinement for Some, But Not All

ADX H-Unit on Hunger Strike, Prisoners Being Force-Fed

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

Seven Days in Solitary [2/2/14]

Voices from Solitary: Walk With Me — Life on the Inside of the SMU at USP Lewisburg

Seven Days in Solitary [1/26/14]

Women in Solitary Confinement: Buried Inside the Federal Prison System

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/13]

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

DC’s Youth Face Solitary Confinement in District Jails and Federal Prisons

Seven Days in Solitary [12/15/13]

Voices from Solitary: “Finally Out and Among the Living”

“This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse”: An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

Voices from Solitary: “A Prison Where the Building Becomes the Shackles”

Seven Days in Solitary [11/24/13]

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

Voices from Solitary: Life in H-Unit, ADX Federal Supermax

In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

Seven Days in Solitary [11/10/13]

Under Fire, Federal Bureau of Prisons Audits Use of Solitary Confinement—and Buys a New Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [10/13/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/6/13]

After 41 Years in Solitary, a Dying Herman Wallace Has His Conviction Overturned—-and Is Freed

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

New Directive May Curtail Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention