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The U.S. government is currently contending with two federal lawsuits that challenge the torturous conditions at the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum (ADX) in Florence, Colorado. Both suits allege that the social isolation and sensory deprivation at ADX are so extreme that they drive prisoners to madness, self-mutilation, and suicide–yet the Bureau of Prisons offers them next to nothing […]

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Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hear Testimony on the Torture of Solitary Confinement

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

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

Pennsylvania Prisoner Commits Suicide in Isolation Unit

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

Voices from Solitary: Can’t You Hear Us?

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

Voices from Solitary: “No Human Being Should Be Treated This Way”

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

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

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

Voices from Solitary: Behind Enemy Lines

First Congressional Hearing on Solitary Confinement to Be Held June 19

Former Rikers Island Chaplain Speaks Out Against Growth of Solitary Confinement

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

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

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

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

UN Human Rights Council Considers Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons

National and International Events Challenging Use of Solitary Confinement

The Guantánamos Next Door

New Report Shows Juvenile Lifers Suffering in Solitary Confinement

New Video: National Religious Campaign Against Torture Takes a Stand on Solitary Confinement

Beyond Guantánamo, There’s Long-Term Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons

New Video: UN Torture Expert Juan Mendez on Solitary Confinement

Freed from an Iranian Prison, Sarah Shourd Speaks Out for U.S. Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

UN Torture Investigator Calls on Nations to End Solitary Confinement