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Juan E. Mendez is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Under a mandate from the General Assembly’s Human Rights Council, Mendez is charged with investigating and reporting on the use of torture throughout the 193 UN member states, as well as issuing recommendations and urgent appeals. In […]

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New Video: UN Torture Expert Juan Mendez on Solitary Confinement

“The Destruction of the Human Spirit”: Testimony of Rev. William McGarvey on Solitary Confinement

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

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Solitary Confinement Widely Used in California’s Juvenile Jails

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Selective Outrage

Our Homegrown American Gitmos

Fahad Hashmi Joins 1,400 Others in the Solitary Confinement Capital of the World

Children Routinely Held in Pre-Trial Solitary Confinement in Texas

Criminalizing Mental Illness

Teen Held in Solitary in Tennessee Jail Because He Can’t Make Bail

Voices from Solitary: Ara Oshagan Photographs California Juvies

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

LGBT Kids in Prison Face Rape, Beatings, and Isolation

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

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Alaska Teen Spends 17-Months in Pre-Trial Solitary Confinement

Lessons from Solitary

Richard Ross Photographs Children in Solitary Confinement

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

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

The Lost Boys of Westchester County’s SHU

Ask Shamu: The U.S. Tortures Both Human and Animal Prisoners

Teen Kills Himself After Being Put in Solitary for…Trying to Kill Himself

House Republicans Explain Why They Oppose Ban on Child Abuse in Schools

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement