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Cañon City, Colorado, is the Solitary Confinement Capital of the Western World. Now, a Small Group Lawyers, Legislators, and Activists Is Challenging This All-American Form of Torture. Part 1: The Alcatraz of the Rockies On the wall opposite Laura Rovner’s desk at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law is a large framed drawing […]

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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”

Obama’s First Military Tribunal: Child Soldier Tortured at Bagram and Gitmo

Montana Teen Who Faced Torture in Prison Asks Judge to Keep Him Out of Solitary

“Torture Memo” Author Says He Authorized Waterboarding, But Not “Extended Solitary Confinement”

Celebrities in Solitary: Lindsay Lohan Goes to Lockdown

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

Voices from Solitary: “What Prisoners Have…”

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude

“Extradition to a Future of Total Isolation” Opposed by British Human Rights Lawyer

Supreme Court Decision Limits Juvenile Life Without Parole (Within Limits)

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement: Our Generation of Americans “Has Countenanced Legalized Torture”

Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

AFSC Seeks Stories of Isolation and Torture in U.S. Prisons

Punishment for Possessing One Joint = Jail, Solitary Confinement, and Deportation

The Lost Boys of Westchester County’s SHU

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

A Suspicious (and Lonely) Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit