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We’ve written at length about the case of Troy Anderson, a prisoner with mental illness who has spent more than ten years in solitary confinement at the Colorado State Penitentiary. This past April, a Federal District Court in Denver heard a case brought on Anderson behalf by students at the University of Denver Law School’s […]

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Judge Rules Against Colorado Supermax That Keeps Prisoners Indoors for Years

New Report Examines the Hardships of Life After Solitary Confinement

Federal Prisons Chief Sends Memo Urging Prisoners Not to Kill Themselves

Pennsylvania Prisoner Commits Suicide in Isolation Unit

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

“New York’s Black Sites”: New Article About Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Demonstrators Protest Solitary Confinement and Brutality in New York City’s Jails

Voices from Solitary: “No Human Being Should Be Treated This Way”

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

Lawsuit Challenges Conditions at ADX Federal Supermax

Voices from Solitary: “I Lost the Will to Live”

Congress Unlocks America’s Hidden Shame of Solitary Confinement

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: From the Vortex of Uinta One

Voices from Solitary: Exiled In Purgatory

Former Rikers Island Chaplain Speaks Out Against Growth of Solitary Confinement

Suicides in Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons

Virginia Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Launch Hunger Strike

Montana Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer in Solitary Confinement

Criminalizing Mental Illness: The Story of Adam Hall

Mothers with Sons in Solitary Tell Their Stories

Federal Judge Criticizes Supermax Confinement in Colorado

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Solitary Confinement Leads to Suffering and Suicide in Pennsylvania’s Prisons

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

“Complete Lawlessness” at Orleans Parish Prison

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

More Suicides in Solitary Plague Massachusetts Prisons

Leading Mental Health Experts Urge Illinois Legislators to Close Tamms Supermax