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According to reports this morning from inside the U.S. Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, CO, eight to nine people held in the super-secret H-Unit are on hunger strike and are being force-fed. While run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the unit has strong FBI involvement in its management. In November of […]

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ADX H-Unit on Hunger Strike, Prisoners Being Force-Fed

On the Way to Solitary, Women in Massachusetts Jail Get Strip Searched and Videotaped

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

In California Death Row’s “Adjustment Center,” Condemned Men Wait in Solitary Confinement

Prison Watchdog Says Solitary Confinement in Canada Is “Out of Control”

“As Long As Solitary Exists, They Will Find a Way to Use It”: Five Years After California’s Prison Hunger Strike

Could This Be the Worst Solitary Confinement Unit in the Nation?

Behind the Pennsylvania Prison Lockdown: Public Health Crisis or Powerplay?

Solitary Confinement Caused “Complete Mental and Physical Collapse” of Man in Virginia Prison, Lawsuit Contends

In Indiana Prisons, Solitary Confinement by Another Name Still Feels Like Torture

D.C. Jail: From Hellhole to Hotspot

How Not to Fight a Prison Pandemic [Update]

Teen Dies in Solitary in Georgia Jail After Alleged Medical Neglect

Children Sentenced to Die in Prison

Inside ADX Supermax: “A Bloody Nightmare”

Pelican Bay Prisoners File Lawsuit Against Long-Term Isolation

Suicide and Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Indiana’s Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Violates Constitution

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

Leading Mental Health Experts Urge Illinois Legislators to Close Tamms Supermax

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

“Complete Lawlessness” at Orleans Parish Prison

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

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

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Children in Solitary

Federal Judge Criticizes Supermax Confinement in Colorado

Montana Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer in Solitary Confinement

Lawsuit Challenges Conditions at ADX Federal Supermax