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Guest Post by Samuel Weiss and Amy Fettig Samuel Weiss is Ford Foundation Fellow at the ACLU’s Center for Justice. Amy Fettig is Senior Staff Counsel at the ACLU’s National Prison Project. In March, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee when he received a question on prison overcrowding. He responded […]

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Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Invites Constitutional Challenge of Solitary Confinement

After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

In Landmark Settlement, Solitary Confinement to Be Dramatically Reduced in California Prisons

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

“Systemic Failures Persist” in California Prison Mental Health Care, Judge Rules

Judge Rules Against Colorado Supermax That Keeps Prisoners Indoors for Years

New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard

Massachusetts Court Rules Against Solitary Confinement Without Due Process

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 “Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement”

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

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

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

Mentally Ill Man Dies, Injured and Alone, in a Tulsa Jail Cell

The Machinery of Death: Some Death Row Prisoners Can Still Opt for Firing Squad (or Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, or Noose)

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Severely Disabled Man Sues New York State Prisons for Neglect, Abuse

Torture on Death Row: Court Rules Against Automatic Use of Solitary Confinement for the Condemned

Federal Appeals Court Considers Tommy Silverstein’s 30 Years in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Angola 3’s Herman Wallace, Gravely Ill, Still Held in Isolation

After 41 Years in Solitary, a Dying Herman Wallace Has His Conviction Overturned—-and Is Freed

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

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown

America’s “Most Isolated Man” Sues the Bureau of Prisons

In Canada, a Death in Prison Sparks Debate, Lawsuits Over Solitary Confinement

At Ohio’s Supermax Prison, a Hunger Strike Ends But Extreme Isolation Remains

At Louisiana’s Angola Prison, Lawsuit Claims, the Sick Face Neglect, Isolation, and Death

British Supreme Court Rules Against Unlawful Use of Prolonged Solitary Confinement

California Prison Hunger Strikes Sparked Solitary Reforms, Internal Documents Show