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Comparing their conditions to a “living coffin,” a group of lawyers for hundreds of California prisoners placed in long-term or indefinite solitary confinement petitioned the United Nations yesterday to intervene on their behalf. The petition, drawn up by the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, names 22 main inmate petitioners and refers to hundreds more held in […]

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California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

40 Years in Solitary: New BBC Program on the Angola 3 Case

“Complete Lawlessness” at Orleans Parish Prison

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

Families of California Prisoners Respond to Controversial Reforms of Solitary Confinement

Children Spend Months in Solitary Confinement in Texas Jails

Mothers with Sons in Solitary Tell Their Stories

Former Rikers Island Chaplain Speaks Out Against Growth of Solitary Confinement

Congress Unlocks America’s Hidden Shame of Solitary Confinement

Guantanamo “Is Not an Aberration”: How the War on Terror Came Home

New Mexico Man Gets $15.5 Million for His Two-Year Ordeal in Solitary

Day 59 of California Prison Hunger Strike: “Their Spirits Are High, Their Bodies Are Weak”

Reports Condemn Healthcare and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons

Solitary Confinement Is Not Healthy for Elephants (or Humans)

State Bar Association Calls on New York to “Profoundly Restrict” Its Use of Solitary Confinement

Bradley Manning Marks 1,000 Days in Pre-Trial Detention

Prison Health Care: Is the American Health Profession Ignoring a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight?

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

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

The Solitary Men of Texas Death Row

Live from Death Row: 3,600 Americans Waiting Alone to Die

New York Lawmakers Introduce Bill to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 “Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement”

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

Illinois Prisoner Says Years of Solitary Confinement Caused Mental Illness, Self-Mutilation

The Ten Worst Prisons in America

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

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