Juan Mendez Archives - Solitary Watch

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New this week from Solitary Watch: • In an essay in our Voices from Solitary series, Cesar Villa offers a searing account of living in prolonged solitary confinement in a Security Housing Unit, or SHU, at California’s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison. “We’re only here to die. The prison administration is paid to put us down. […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Juan Mendez

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/22/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/25/18]

Trump Wants to Bring Back Torture. For Thousands of Americans, It Never Went Away.

Looking Back on Six Years of Leadership Against Solitary Confinement With UN Torture Expert Juan Méndez

Seven Days in Solitary [11/13/2016]

UN Report Compares Solitary Confinement Practices in the U.S. and Around the World

Seven Days in Solitary [3/13/2016]

UN Human Rights Experts (Again) Push for Access to U.S. Prisons, Call for Solitary Reform

UN Torture Investigator Barred from Visiting American Supermax Prisons

Seven Days in Solitary [3/15/2015]

UN Investigator Says Long-Term Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons Is Torture

Activists Urge U.S. Government to Grant UN Torture Expert Access to New York’s Prisons

Seven Days in Solitary [10/27/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/20/13]

UN: Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Can Be Torture, Force-Feeding Unacceptable

New Video: UN Torture Expert Juan Mendez on Solitary Confinement

UN Torture Investigator Calls on Nations to End Solitary Confinement