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Last month, the Community Legal Aid Society Inc. (CLASI), along with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), filed a lawsuit against the head of the Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) over the department’s treatment of incarcerated people suffering from mental illness. CLASI argues that the DOC’s current practices violate the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. […]

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Lawsuit Charges Delaware Prison System With Neglect and Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill

Due Process Rights Routinely Suppressed in California Prisons

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Pennsylvania Prison System Faces Lawsuit Over Suicide of Young Man with Mental Illness

Holder Makes Obama Administration’s First Public Statement on Solitary Confinement

Videos Show Abuse of Mentally Ill in California Prisons

Mentally Ill in South Carolina’s Prisons Suffer Decades of Abuse and Neglect

Records Show Excessive Use of Force at Colorado Supermax

In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

Lawsuit Filed Against Solitary Confinement of 800 “Seriously Mentally Ill” in Pennsylvania

Judge Rules California Solitary Confinement Lawsuit Should Have Its Day in Court

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Federal Supermax Lawsuits

Federal Lawsuit Challenges Brutality in Solitary Confinement Unit at North Carolina Prison

California Prisoners Launch New Hunger Strike to Protest Solitary Confinement

California Prison Hunger Strikers to Be Force-Fed

One Month After Historic Hunger Strike, California Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/7/13]

Russell Maroon Shoatz: Resisting the “Spiritual Death” of Solitary Confinement

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Mumia Abu-Jamal Challenges Death Row Solitary Confinement and Life Without Parole

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

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

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

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