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The latest issue of The Nation includes an excellent article by Matt Stroud, about the common practice in Pennsylvania of placing prisoners with serious mental illness in solitary confinement–where, unsurprisingly, they sometimes resort to suicide. The article begins: By the time John McClellan Jr. was found dead inside Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Cresson last […]

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Solitary Confinement Leads to Suffering and Suicide in Pennsylvania’s Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “Thoughts of Freedom Running Wild in My Head”

“A Time to Speak Up”: Prisoner Freed After a Decade in Solitary Confinement in Pennsylvania

New Video: Daughter of Russell Maroon Shoats, Held in Solitary Confinement for Nearly 30 Years

How Many Prisoners Are in Solitary Confinement in the United States?

Mumia Abu-Jamal Moved Off Death Row–and into Solitary Confinement

New Video: National Religious Campaign Against Torture Takes a Stand on Solitary Confinement

Pennsylvania Prisoners Charged with Rioting After Protesting Conditions in Solitary

Abu Ghraib on the Allegheny: Sexual and Physical Abuse at Pennsylvania Prison

Voices from Solitary: “Beyond Inhumane”

Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “An Insane Asylum Disguised As an SMU”

Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Lockdown Fuels “Cycle of Violence” at Federal Prison

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Pennsylvania Legislators Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

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

Charles Dickens on Solitary Confinement: “Immense Torture and Agony”