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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with California-based Prison Law Office and their co-counsel in federal class action lawsuit Parsons v. Ryan, has released a series of 26 reports alleging extensive problems with the Arizona Department of Corrections’ (ADC) healthcare program and its use of solitary confinement. Prison Law Office director Don Specter stated the groups requested the reports from national experts in […]

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Reports Condemn Healthcare and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons

American Experts Urge British Not to Believe What They Hear About US Prison Conditions

Voices from Solitary: Dare to Think

Seven Days in Solitary [8/31/14]

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

Videos Show Brutal Treatment of Prisoners with Mental Illness

Federal Supermax Prison “in Violation of International Law”: Amnesty International

Prayers for People in Solitary Confinement

What It Means to Be Human: A Philosopher’s Argument Against Solitary Confinement

UN Investigator Says Long-Term Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons Is Torture

Voices from Solitary: “Mind Blowing Because I’m a Kid”

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part V

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part IV

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

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

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

New York Lawmakers Introduce Bill to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Prison Health Care: Is the American Health Profession Ignoring a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight?

Seven Days in Solitary [1/26/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/13]

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

Mentally Ill in South Carolina’s Prisons Suffer Decades of Abuse and Neglect

Seven Days in Solitary [1/5/14]

War [on Crime] Is Over — If You Want It

Solitary Confinement: Too Controversial for Costco

Activists Urge U.S. Government to Grant UN Torture Expert Access to New York’s Prisons

Mandela in Solitary

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

Seven Days in Solitary [11/24/13]