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Pennsylvania inmate Derrick Stanley has been released from prison after over 22 years of incarceration, more than half of which was served in solitary confinement. Stanley was among six inmates in State Correctional Institution-Dallas’s Restricted Housing Unit (RHU) charged with rioting after a peaceful protest against mistreatment of another inmate in April 2010. Stanley, who […]

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“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”