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In March 2010, Julie Tackett, a Seattle-based activist inspired by her religious faith, began exchanging letters with Bryan, an inmate in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison in northern California. Neither could have anticipated the astonishing direction their correspondence would take. Bryan has been in solitary confinement in the prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) […]

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“Give Us in Here the Strength to See This Thing Through”: A Chronicle of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike

New from Solitary Watch: Original Videos on Solitary Confinement

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

Statements from Human Rights and Civil Rights Groups Support Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers

Update: Pelican Bay Prisoners Reject State Proposal, Continue Hunger Strike

Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: On Solitary Confinement and Finding Humanity

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Maine Cuts Supermax Population, Reforms Solitary Confinement Practices

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Solitary Confinement Comes to Capitol Hill

Tolerating Torture

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

ACLU Urges UN to Take Action on Solitary Confinement in the United States

Solitary Watch to Be Featured at Torture Awareness Campaign

Fahad Hashmi Joins 1,400 Others in the Solitary Confinement Capital of the World

All-American Prison Torture

“I Spent 29 Years in Solitary Confinement”

Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical Ethics”