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Florida has one of the highest rates of solitary confinement in the nation, at one eighth of the total state prison population. Florida’s usage of solitary is extreme not only in its scale, but also its implementation, with African Americans and individuals with mental illness significantly overrepresented in isolation. Florida’s prisons and juvenile detention centers […]

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Mental Illness

Solitary Confinement Out of Control in Florida Prisons

Seven Days in Solitary [1/14/2016]

Settlement Limits Solitary Confinement for People With Mental Illness in Indiana’s Prisons

Seven Days in Solitary [1/7/2016]

Agreement Will Reduce Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill in Oregon Prisons

Legal Settlement Demands Better Mental Health Care, Less Solitary Confinement in Illinois Prisons

With Sons in Solitary, Mothers Fight for Their Freedom—and Their Lives

Judged Incompetent to Stand Trial, People with Mental Illness Still Languish in Pennsylvania Jails

Voices from Solitary: We Are All Animals

Lawsuit Charges Delaware Prison System With Neglect and Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill

Report Blasts Conditions at District of Columbia Jail

Seven Days in Solitary [8/9/2015]

Will Lawsuits and Exposés Lead to Reform of Florida’s Brutal Prisons?

New Report Highlights 10 Destructive Myths About Solitary Confinement

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

A Fortnight in Solitary [5/17/2015]

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

Officials, Advocates Call for Restrictions on Solitary Confinement in Wisconsin

Seven Days in Solitary [3/15/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/8/2015]

Audit of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons: An Inside Job Reaches Foregone Conclusions

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

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

Voices from Solitary: Cycle of Despair

Controversy Erupts at Public Meeting on New Rikers Island Isolation Units

Corrections Officer Found Guilty in Death in a Rikers Island Solitary Cell

Under Fire for Negligence, North Carolina Prisons Chief Seeks New Mental Health Funding

Arizona Opens New $50M Supermax Prison; Report Denounces State’s Use of Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Life of an Escape Artist