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It was Gay Pride weekend in New York City, but the event’s celebratory spirit was absent from Michelle Scott’s tidy second-floor apartment on a leafy street near Brooklyn College. Her child, Carey Smith, is a transgender woman currently locked up in solitary confinement in Upstate Correctional Facility, a men’s supermax prison located in the Adirondacks. […]

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

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

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

Struggling to Survive at San Quentin: “We Are Dying in Here”

News Match Doubles Donations to Solitary Watch Through December 31

Children Sentenced to Die in Prison

No End to U.S. Torture

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

The Human Rights of the Inhumane

New Video: UN Torture Expert Juan Mendez on Solitary Confinement

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

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

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

European Human Rights Court Rules Terror Suspects Can Be Extradited to U.S. Supermax

New Film Explores “the Injustice of Solitary Confinement and the Transformative Power of Art”

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

Former Rikers Island Chaplain Speaks Out Against Growth of Solitary Confinement

First Congressional Hearing on Solitary Confinement to Be Held June 19

Now Available: Collection of Written Testimony for Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Guantanamo “Is Not an Aberration”: How the War on Terror Came Home

Demonstrators Protest Solitary Confinement and Brutality in New York City’s Jails

AFSC Releases “Survivors Manual” By and For Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Pennsylvania Prisoner Commits Suicide in Isolation Unit

Defense Describes Bradley Manning’s “Unlawful Pretrial Punishment” in Solitary Confinement

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hear Testimony on the Torture of Solitary Confinement

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

Amnesty International Releases Report Condemning California Prison Isolation Units