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The following essay by Solitary Watch’s James Ridgeway appears in the current issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, which also includes an excellent story on the difficulties involved in reporting on prisons in general. For more on prison media policies, see our accompanying article by Rachel M. Cohen. Supermax prisons and solitary confinement units are our domestic […]

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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”

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Obama and Bureau of Prisons Lowball Supermax Costs

Federal Judge: Extended Solitary Confinement Causes “Lasting Psychological Damage and Emotional Harm”

Two for One: Guantanamo Won’t Close, But Illinois Supermax Will Open

No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confinement

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

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

Rising Criticism of Tamms Illinois Supermax