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David Fathi, who directs the ACLU’s National Prison Project and its Stop Solitary initiative, has been reporting from the U.N. Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting on revising the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR), held last week in Buenos Aires. Fathi reported that the United States delegation proposed some “concrete and positive changes to the SMR”–but […]

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At U.N. Prisoners’ Rights Meeting, U.S. Resists Limits on Solitary Confinement

Extradited to a Future of Torture in a U.S. Supermax Prison

Voices from Solitary: Oscar Wilde on the Cruelty of Children in Prison

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

National and International Events Challenging Use of Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement in Great Britain: Still Harsh, But Rare

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

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

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

Voices from Solitary: Oscar Wilde’s Cry from the Depths

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

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

On Reality TV, Solitary Confinement Is a Game

Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk from a Cell to Freedom

Canada Questions Solitary Confinement After Teenager’s Death

Freed British Hostage Evokes Trauma of Solitary Confinement