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In commemoration of the Attica Uprising 47 years earlier, incarcerated organizers chose September 9 as the final day of the nearly three-week-long National Prison Strike that began on August 21. The strike eventually extended to federal prisons, state prisons, immigration detention centers, and local jails across at least fourteen states, with actions ranging from work […]

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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

UN Committee on Torture Says U.S. Must Reform Its Use of Solitary Confinement

UN Committee on Torture Questions U.S. Record on Solitary Confinement

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

Voices from Solitary: Is “Torture” Too Strong of a Word?

Settlement to Improve Arizona’s Prison Health Care, Limit Use of Solitary Confinement

Pope Francis Denounces Solitary Confinement, Calls for Prison Conditions That “Respect Human Dignity”

Voices from Solitary: Survivors Speak

U.S. Government Tells UN: “No Systematic Use of Solitary Confinement in the United States”