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Even in the context of the United States’ grim and sometimes brutal prison conditions, a story released yesterday by the American Civil Liberties of Louisiana shocks the conscience. The ACLU is protesting treatment of prisoners in one parish jail, who are routinely locked in cages measuring 3 x 3 feet–one-fourth the legally mandated size for caged dogs in the […]

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Louisiana Jail Locks Up Suicidal Prisoners in 3′ x 3′ Cages

Voices from Solitary: Life in a Pennsylvania Prison’s “Restricted Housing Unit”

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Oregon Converts Supermax Unit to Treat Prisoners With 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