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Note: The following piece ran on The Guardian’s website on Monday, July 25. On 21 July, prisoners in solitary confinement at California’s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison began accepting the meals that were slipped to them through slots in their solid mental cell doors. For many, it was the first time they had eaten in three weeks. A group […]

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A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

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

Solitary Confinement in New York (and in the New York Times)

California Bill Would Lift Media Ban on Access to Prisons

Solitary and Death Row Survivor Anthony Graves Speaks Out

The “Torture of Isolation” Gains Media Attention

WikiLeakers Held in Solitary Confinement

On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Selective Outrage

The Art of Activism: Closing Tamms Supermax

New York City Officials and Advocates Push for Change to the “Culture of Brutality” on Rikers Island

As Washington State Prisons Begin Reforms, 800 Remain in Solitary Confinement

Guarding the Fortresses: How Prison Policies Limit Media Access to Solitary Confinement

Twenty Years After the Lucasville Uprising, Trying to Tell the Story

News from the Hole: The Words of People in Solitary Confinement in America’s Prisons

Controversy Erupts at Public Meeting on New Rikers Island Isolation Units

Colorado State Penitentiary II Opens With 300 New Solitary Confinement Cells

New York Lawmakers Introduce Bill to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Abuse and Cover-Up in California Prisons’ “Behavior Management Units”

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

How Many Prisoners Are in Solitary Confinement in the United States?

For Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, A Year of Incremental Reform

Kalief Browder’s Life and Death Galvanize Action to End Solitary Confinement

On Rikers Island, an End to the Solitary Confinement of Children

Civil Rights Groups Demand Change for Transgender Women Held in Solitary in New York’s Prisons

New York Prisons Bar Media from Solitary Confinement Units

As New York City Jails Amend Their Solitary Confinement Practices, Abuses on Rikers Island Continue

Solitary Confinement: Too Controversial for Costco

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

We Are One Body: Catholics Raise Voices Against Solitary Confinement