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North Carolina corrections chief David Guice wants more than $20 million to improve the treatment of people with mental illness in the state’s prisons. His request comes on the heels of two recent reports showing neglect and abuse of prisoners with psychiatric disabilities in North Carolina, and the death in custody of one such individual, […]

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Under Fire for Negligence, North Carolina Prisons Chief Seeks New Mental Health Funding

Arizona Opens New $50M Supermax Prison; Report Denounces State’s Use of Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Life of an Escape Artist

Voices from Solitary: Is “Torture” Too Strong of a Word?

“A Girl Hung Herself Yesterday”: Deaths in Custody at California Institution for Women

Voices from Solitary: The Heaviness of Blood

Settlement to Improve Arizona’s Prison Health Care, Limit Use of Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Survivors Speak

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

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part VII

Reports Condemn Healthcare and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons

American Experts Urge British Not to Believe What They Hear About US Prison Conditions

Seven Days in Solitary [9/07/2014]

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part VI

Seven Days in Solitary [8/31/14]

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

Voices from Solitary: What Have You Done to My Brother?

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

Videos Show Brutal Treatment of Prisoners with Mental Illness

Federal Supermax Prison “in Violation of International Law”: Amnesty International

Advisers to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hold Briefing on Juvenile Solitary Confinement in New York

Seven Days in Solitary [7/13/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/6/2014]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]

Voices from Solitary, Analyzing Isolation, Part III

Voices from Solitary: “That Which Does Not Kill Us…”

Seven Days in Solitary [5/18/14]

“Disappearing” the Disadvantaged Into Prison, and Into Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Head Cases