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Utah State Prison’s Uinta 1 facility serves as the prison’s super-maximum security unit, where inmates are held in solitary confinement. Inmates in Uinta 1 may be there for disciplinary infractions, notoriety reasons, protective custody, or because they are security/escape risks. The unit is divided into eight sections with twelve inmates in each section, for a total […]

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“Waiting For The World To Give Us A Reason To Live”: Solitary Confinement in Utah

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hear Testimony on the Torture of Solitary Confinement

Scientists Discover How Social Isolation Damages Young Brains

“Total Isolation”: Solitary Confinement in Oregon

Solitary Confinement: New York’s Hidden Problem

Texas Hearing Finds Prisoners Released from Solitary Directly to the Streets

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