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• The Appeal reported that incarcerated hunger strikers protesting the use of solitary confinement and “retaliatory transfers” have been kept in appalling conditions at Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama. An incarcerated organizer described what happened when the water was shut off in cells: “They was forced to stay in a cell with urine in the commode […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Human Rights

Seven Days in Solitary [4/29/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/15/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/11/19]

Behind the Pennsylvania Prison Lockdown: Public Health Crisis or Powerplay?

Seven Days in Solitary [2/11/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/21/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/21/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/14/18]

Prisons Use Solitary Confinement to Silence Strikers Nationwide—But Their Voices Have Been Heard

Seven Days in Solitary [9/16/18]

Voices from Solitary: Double Jeopardy

Seven Days in Solitary [9/2/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/12/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/22/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/15/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/13/18]

News Match Doubles Donations to Solitary Watch Through December 31

The Human Rights of the Inhumane

Off the Block

Can International Laws and Standards Help Curb Solitary Confinement in the United States?

UN Human Rights Experts (Again) Push for Access to U.S. Prisons, Call for Solitary Reform

Voices from Solitary: Injury x Insult

UN’s “Mandela Rules” to Set New International Limits on Solitary Confinement

Irish Court Blocks Suspect’s Extradition to U.S., Citing Risk of Solitary Confinement

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Invites Constitutional Challenge of Solitary Confinement

New Report Documents Brutal Treatment of People with Mental Illness in U.S. Prisons and Jails

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

UN Torture Investigator Barred from Visiting American Supermax Prisons

Arizona Opens New $50M Supermax Prison; Report Denounces State’s Use of Solitary