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The following article originally appeared on Counterpunch. A Solitary Watch investigation into the sites of the federal government’s two “supermax” facilities—the first open for two decades, the second slated to open soon—reveals a number of possible serious environmental hazards. The prisons, ADX Florence in Colorado and AUSP Thomson in Illinois, are built to hold men […]

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Toxic Traps: Environmental Hazards Threaten Two Federal Supermax Prisons

Seven Days in Solitary [8/16/2015]

Voices from Solitary: Segregation Medical

Voices from Solitary: Phantom Souls

Voices from Solitary: “I Am Somebody’s Daughter”

New Federal Supermax Prison Will Double Capacity for Extreme Solitary Confinement

Working from the Inside Out

Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part III

Voices from Solitary: Hunger Strike in Menard Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/13]

Voices from Solitary: American Supermax

Solitary Watch Print Edition

Voices from Solitary: 13.5 Square Feet

The Art of Activism: Closing Tamms Supermax

Guarding the Fortresses: How Prison Policies Limit Media Access to Solitary Confinement

Journalists Barred from Prison Isolation Units

Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash With Prison Reform

Feds to Open New Supermax Prison Cells at “Gitmo North”

The End of Tamms Supermax

Tamms Supermax: Report Reveals More Guards Than Prisoners, Soaring Costs

Tamms Supermax Prison Closure Temporarily Halted

Shutting Down a Supermax: An Interview With Alan Mills of the Uptown People’s Law Center

Voices from Solitary: “I Lost the Will to Live”

Testimony from Hearing on Closure of Tamms Supermax Prison

Leading Mental Health Experts Urge Illinois Legislators to Close Tamms Supermax

Illinois Governor Proposes Closing Controversial Tamms Supermax Prison

Illinois Prisoner Says Years of Solitary Confinement Caused Mental Illness, Self-Mutilation

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”