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Guest Post by Lance Tapley In 1986 Ojore Lutalo, a black revolutionary in the Trenton State Prison — now the New Jersey State Prison — wrote to Bonnie Kerness’s American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) office in Newark. His letter described the extreme isolation and other brutalities in the prison’s Management Control Unit, which he called a “prison […]

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Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement

Bradley Manning’s Torture in Solitary Confinement Is Subject of Pre-Trial Hearing

At U.N. Prisoners’ Rights Meeting, U.S. Resists Limits on Solitary Confinement

New Video: Dr. Terry Kupers on Solitary Confinement and Mental Health

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

Mandela in Solitary

Reports Condemn Healthcare and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Kids Languish in Solitary While Awaiting Trial in Colorado

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

Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk from a Cell to Freedom

Solitary Deaths in Immigrant Detention Centers

The Hashmi Case Brings Guantanamo Home

“Companionship or Death”: Jewish Engagement With the Injustice of Solitary Confinement

Bradley Manning Marks 1,000 Days in Pre-Trial Detention

Thirty Days in Solitary

Opposing the Architecture of Isolation: Architects Against Solitary Confinement

U.S. DOJ Documents Torturous Treatment in Pennsylvania Solitary Confinement Unit

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

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

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

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

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Invites Constitutional Challenge of Solitary Confinement

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

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

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

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America’s Official Child Abuse

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons