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Colorado already has hundreds of “administrative segregation” cells, and Colorado State Penitentiary’s ad seg unit is becoming notorious since National Geographic fimed a show on solitary confinement there. The state is also broke, making deep cuts to education and other public services. Nevertheless, following a protracted budget battle, Colorado came up with more than $10 million to open one tower […]

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Colorado State Penitentiary II Opens With 300 New Solitary Confinement Cells

“I Write, Read, Cry, Sleep and Beg for Death”: Life In Utah’s Supermax

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

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

“Systemic Failures Persist” in California Prison Mental Health Care, Judge Rules

Judge Rules Against Colorado Supermax That Keeps Prisoners Indoors for Years

Utah Supermax Prisoners Report Being “Treated Like an Animal”

Criminalizing Mental Illness: The Story of Adam Hall

Federal Bureau of Prisons Details Plans for Limited “Audit” of Solitary Confinement Practices

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

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

Illinois Prisoner Says Years of Solitary Confinement Caused Mental Illness, Self-Mutilation

Controversial Colorado Study Shows Prisoners “Improve” in Solitary Confinement

Doing “Bing Time”: Memories of a Mental Health Worker in Rikers Island’s Solitary Confinement Unit

A Preventable Death in an Arizona Prison

Mentally Ill Man Dies, Injured and Alone, in a Tulsa Jail Cell

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

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

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Video Shows Maine Prisoner with Mental Illness Brutally Subdued by Guards

What Solitary Confinement Does to the Brain

Scientists Discover How Social Isolation Damages Young Brains

New Report Documents the “Waste, Cost and Harm” of Solitary Confinement in Texas

In Canada, a Death in Prison Sparks Debate, Lawsuits Over Solitary Confinement

Officials, Advocates Call for Restrictions on Solitary Confinement in Wisconsin

New Report Documents Brutal Treatment of People with Mental Illness in U.S. Prisons and Jails

New Report Highlights 10 Destructive Myths About Solitary Confinement

Report Blasts Conditions at District of Columbia Jail