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Yesterday morning, members of the Jails Action Coalition (JAC), a newly formed grassroots activist group that opposes the expansion of solitary confinement and other abuses in New York City’s jails, held a demonstration outside a meeting of the city’s Board of Corrections. Chanting, “We demand prisoners’ rights, together we stand, together we fight!” and “Jobs and education, not incarceration!” protesters […]

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Demonstrators Protest Solitary Confinement and Brutality in New York City’s Jails

Lawsuit Challenges Conditions at ADX Federal Supermax

Pelican Bay Prisoners File Lawsuit Against Long-Term Isolation

Montana Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer in Solitary Confinement

Federal Judge Criticizes Supermax Confinement in Colorado

Children in Solitary

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Montana Settlement Limits Solitary Confinement for Juveniles, Prisoners with Mental Illness

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

“Complete Lawlessness” at Orleans Parish Prison

“Cruel Isolation”: Amnesty International Report Blasts Conditions in Arizona’s Prisons

Leading Mental Health Experts Urge Illinois Legislators to Close Tamms Supermax

Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer — and Die — in Arizona’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Lawsuit Charges Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment

New Ban on Solitary Confinement for Child Prisoners in Mississippi

Lawsuit Challenges South Carolina’s Use of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners with Mental Illness

Solitary Confinement in Virginia’s Prisons

New York State Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement Reforms, Spike in Prison Suicide Rate

Federal Judge Rules 28 Years in Solitary Confinement Not “Extreme,” Dismisses Silverstein Case

New Video: ACLU Launches “Stop Solitary” Campaign

Abu Ghraib, California: Report Shows Brutal Abuse of Prisoners in LA County Jails

Abu Ghraib on the Allegheny: Sexual and Physical Abuse at Pennsylvania Prison

NYC Bar Association Issues Report on “The Brutality of Supermax Confinement”

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement and the Law

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

“Pawns in a Failed Experiment”: Testimony of Dr. Craig Haney on Solitary Confinement

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Who Are the Hunger Strikers? How Prisoners Land in Pelican Bay’s SHU

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker