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In 2001, the Prison Watch Project of the American Friends Service Committee published Torture in U.S. Prisons: Evidence of U.S. Human Rights Violations, a unique collection of first-hand testimonies from prisoners. (A pdf copyof is available here.) Now, Prison Project coordinator Bonnie Kerness has put out a call for submissions for a new edition. AFSC, through its STOPMAX […]

Voices from Solitary

Human Rights

AFSC Seeks Stories of Isolation and Torture in U.S. Prisons

Punishment for Possessing One Joint = Jail, Solitary Confinement, and Deportation

The Lost Boys of Westchester County’s SHU

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

A Suspicious (and Lonely) Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Teen Kills Himself After Being Put in Solitary for…Trying to Kill Himself

Dead Man Killing Himself

House Republicans Explain Why They Oppose Ban on Child Abuse in Schools

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement

Maine’s Solitary Confinement Bill: Another Test of Our Tolerance for Torture

Charles Dickens on Solitary Confinement: “Immense Torture and Agony”

Voices from Solitary: Charles P. Norman on “The Insanity of Solitary Confinement”

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

Kids Languish in Solitary While Awaiting Trial in Colorado

Georgia’s Response to Death Row Suicides: Restrict Family Visits

Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners

Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk from a Cell to Freedom

Children in Lockdown: Solitary Confinement of Teens in Adult Prisons

Children Sentenced to Die in Prison

No End to U.S. Torture

Solitary Deaths in Immigrant Detention Centers

Amy Goodman and Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement

The Hashmi Case Brings Guantanamo Home