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Physical Effects

• According to WHYY public radio, neurological researchers Michael Zigmond and Richard Smeyne have recently aimed their studies at understanding the physical impairment of the brain caused by solitary confinement. While the damaging psychological effects of isolation have been widely examined, Smeyne says that physical damage might prove more powerful than psychological damage in legal proceedings. The researchers’ […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Physical Effects

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Voices From Solitary: What Decades of Isolation Do to the Mind and Body

Toxic Traps: Environmental Hazards Threaten Two Federal Supermax Prisons

Voices from Solitary: Segregation Medical

Voices from Solitary: Fly in the Ointment

Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Shackling While Pregnant or Sick

Voices from Solitary: The Heaviness of Blood

Settlement to Improve Arizona’s Prison Health Care, Limit Use of Solitary Confinement

Pope Francis Denounces Solitary Confinement, Calls for Prison Conditions That “Respect Human Dignity”

In the Story of Jonah, an Urgent Lesson About the Dangers of Solitary Confinement

Reports Condemn Healthcare and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons

UPDATED: From One North Carolina Prison, Reports of an Eight-Month Lockdown

Voices from Solitary: What Have You Done to My Brother?

Ninety Years Old, Deaf, and in the Hole in a Florida Prison

In a Maryland Jail, Teens Charged As Adults Face Isolation and Neglect

Voices from Solitary: Head Cases

New ACLU Report Examines Devastating Impact of Solitary Confinement on Women

UN Investigator Says Long-Term Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons Is Torture

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part V

Severely Disabled Man Sues New York State Prisons for Neglect, Abuse

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part IV

Way Down in the Hole: Senate Hearing Challenges Solitary Confinement for Some, But Not All

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part III

Doing “Bing Time”: Memories of a Mental Health Worker in Rikers Island’s Solitary Confinement Unit

Seven Days in Solitary [2/16/14]