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The Obama Administration’s 2014 budget request for the Department of Justice, released this week, confirms that the federal government will open a second ultra-secure supermax prison within the next two years. The new prison will be an “Administrative Maximum U.S. Penitentiary.” Administrative Maximum is a security classification currently held only by the notorious ADX Florence in Colorado, where […]

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Obama’s 2014 Budget Confirms Plans for “ADX Thomson,” New Federal Supermax Prison

Deaf Prisoners in Florida Face Abuse and Solitary Confinement

Suicide of California Hunger Strike Participant Draws National Attention to a Broken System

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

Women in Solitary Confinement: “The Isolation Degenerates Us Into Madness”

Women in Solitary Confinement: Sent to Solitary for Reporting Sexual Assault

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

Women in Solitary Confinement: Buried Inside the Federal Prison System

At Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons, Advocates Challenge “Reforms”

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

Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash With Prison Reform

Journalists Barred from Prison Isolation Units

Women in California Prison Isolation Units Face Overcrowding and Despair

Transgender Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Sexual Assault

“A Girl Hung Herself Yesterday”: Deaths in Custody at California Institution for Women

On Trial for Protesting Conditions in Solitary Confinement: The Case of the Dallas 6

Fates Worse Than Death?

In California Prisons, Hundreds Removed from Solitary Confinement—and Thousands Remain

New Federal Supermax Prison Will Double Capacity for Extreme Solitary Confinement

Audit of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons: An Inside Job Reaches Foregone Conclusions

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

New Solitary Confinement Policies in California Bring Small Changes and Raise Big Questions

City’s New Corrections Chief, Known for Solitary Confinement Reforms, Faces Steep Challenges on Rikers

On the Way to Solitary, Women in Massachusetts Jail Get Strip Searched and Videotaped

In a Maryland Jail, Teens Charged As Adults Face Isolation and Neglect

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

Pressure Grows in Canada for Strict Limits on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Federal and Provincial Prisons

How the New Settlement Will—and Will Not—Change Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons (Redux)

Prison Labor Strike in Alabama: “We Will No Longer Contribute to Our Own Oppression”