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Editor’s Note: The latest issue of Mother Jones magazine includes James Ridgeway’s long article on Burl Cain, warden of the nation’s largest prison, and possibly its most notorious. The former slave plantation is known for the fact that 90 percent of its more than 5,000 prisoners will die behind bars, and also for holding two […]

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“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

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

Federal Appeals Court Considers Tommy Silverstein’s 30 Years in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Angola 3’s Herman Wallace, Gravely Ill, Still Held in Isolation

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

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

Video Shows Maine Prisoner with Mental Illness Brutally Subdued by Guards

What Solitary Confinement Does to the Brain

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

Children in Lockdown: Solitary Confinement of Teens in Adult Prisons

A Day in the Life of Three Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

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

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

Federal Lawsuit Challenges Brutality in Solitary Confinement Unit at North Carolina Prison

Day 36 of California Hunger Strike: Hundreds Still Protesting Isolation Policies

One Month After Historic Hunger Strike, California Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

“Fatal Flaws” in the Colorado Solitary Confinement Study

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement

Solitary Watch Watches National Geographic’s Experiment in Solitary Confinement

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Family of California Prisoner Who Died on Hunger Strike Speaks Out

Conflicting Reports on Hunger Strike at California’s Corcoran State Prison

UN Torture Investigator Calls on Nations to End Solitary Confinement

Federal Judge Rules 28 Years in Solitary Confinement Not “Extreme,” Dismisses Silverstein Case

Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement