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The American prison system is rife with euphemistic acronyms for the places where inmates are held in solitary confinement: Our prisons contain SHUs, SMUs, ASUs, CCRs, and most recently CMUs.* Now, a powerful two-part expose by Charles Pillar in the Sacramento Bee shows what goes on inside the BMUs–the “Behavior Modification Units”–in several California prisons. These units are supposed to combine SHU-style isolation and deprivation […]

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Mental Illness

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

Cash-Strapped Colorado Comes Up With Funds for New Supermax

Maine Legislature Votes to Study Solitary Confinement Practices–But Not to Change Them

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

Teen Kills Himself After Being Put in Solitary for…Trying to Kill Himself

Dead Man Killing Himself

Maine’s Solitary Confinement Bill: Another Test of Our Tolerance for Torture

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Women Prisoners in Virginia Segregated for Having Mental Illness or “Looking Butch”

Canada Questions Solitary Confinement After Teenager’s Death

Inmate Allegedly Placed in Solitary for Refusing to Bribe Guards

The Maine Redemption: Bill Seeks to Restrict Use of Solitary in State’s Prisons

A Louisiana Inmate’s Death Wish

Rising Criticism of Tamms Illinois Supermax

NY Prison System Opens Unit for Mentally Ill

ACLU Says Teen Tortured at Montana Prison