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Today we’re cross-posting an entry from my blog Unsilent Generation, because of its relevance to an issue we’ve written about before: environmental and animal rights activists placed in federal supermax Communications Management Units (CMUs) under the vastly overreactive Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA). The gist of this is that if you pursue some modest reforms through […]

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The Puppy Protection Act and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Maine Prison Whistleblower Exiled and Isolated

Voices from Solitary: Ray Luc Levasseur on Life in ADX

Voices from Solitary: Imprisoned in the First Control Unit for Women

Voices from Solitary: On Solitary Confinement and Finding Humanity

Voices from Solitary: Behind Enemy Lines

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

Voices from Solitary: Flipping the Script

Seven Days in Solitary [1/5/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/20/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/20/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/11/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/25/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/13/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/30/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/27/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/3/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/18/20]

A Month in Solitary [5/3/21]

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement

WikiLeakers Held in Solitary Confinement

On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Selective Outrage

Tracking the Rise of Solitary Confinement in America–and of the Struggle Against It

“This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse”: An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

Mandela in Solitary

Federal Judge Orders Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Released After 43 Years in Solitary