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Yesterday morning, members of the Jails Action Coalition (JAC), a newly formed grassroots activist group that opposes the expansion of solitary confinement and other abuses in New York City’s jails, held a demonstration outside a meeting of the city’s Board of Corrections. Chanting, “We demand prisoners’ rights, together we stand, together we fight!” and “Jobs and education, not incarceration!” protesters […]

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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

Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer — and Die — in Arizona’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Lawsuit Charges Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment

UN Human Rights Council Considers Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons

Illinois Governor Proposes Closing Controversial Tamms Supermax Prison

Lawsuit Challenges South Carolina’s Use of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners with Mental Illness

Shackled in Solitary: Prisoners with Mental Illness in Michigan’s Prisons