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CHILDREN IN LOCKDOWN Based on findings by the state’s own court-appointed overseers, California Watch reports that “Juvenile inmates at California correctional facilities have been held in isolation nearly 24 hours straight on hundreds of occasions this year, in violation of state regulations.” An audit by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in March found multiple facilities […]

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Solitary Confinement Widely Used in California’s Juvenile Jails

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

America’s Most Isolated Federal Prisoner Describes 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

Isolation Units Within U.S. Prisons: CCR Panel Discussion in San Francisco

Supreme Court Rules Against Exonerated Death Row Inmate, for Prosecutors Who Withheld Evidence

Prisoner Grievances: “The System for Going Up Against the System”

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

ACLU Takes a Strong Stand Against Solitary Confinement

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs

New Resources on Solitary Confinement

Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape Takes Her Case to the Supreme Court

Suicide and Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Leaving Cañon City

John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

Another Prisoner With Mental Illness Dies in Isolation

Psychiatrists on Solitary Confinement

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Voices from Solitary: Gang “Validation” and Permanent Isolation in California Prisons

“Epidemic” of Suicides in Massachusetts Prisons

Federal Judge: Extended Solitary Confinement Causes “Lasting Psychological Damage and Emotional Harm”

Due Process Rights Routinely Suppressed in California Prisons

Private Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots

Montana Teen Who Faced Torture in Prison Asks Judge to Keep Him Out of Solitary