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Over the past year, I’ve been writing about the Angola 3 in a series of stories for Mother Jones. Earlier stories have highlighted the men’s federal lawsuit, which claims violations of their constitutional rights, and on Albert Woodfox’s criminal appeal. The latest story, by Jean Casella and myself, focuses on Herman Wallace, and was published last week. For the better part of […]

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Southern Injustice: 37 Years in Solitary

Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk from a Cell to Freedom

Law Aimed at Silencing People Convicted of Crimes Is Declared Unconstitutional

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

The Hidden History of Solitary Confinement in New Jersey’s Control Units

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

New Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

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

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

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

83-Year-Old Activist Priest Held in Solitary Confinement in Federal Prison

New from Solitary Watch: Original Videos on Solitary Confinement

Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

Angola 3 Mark 39 Years in Solitary Confinement

Easter As a Story of Criminal Injustice

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

Inside “Little Gitmo”: Documents Detail Inmate Surveillance at Federal Prisons

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Ohio Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike for Transfer from Solitary to Death Row

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

Super-Secretive Supermax Prisons: Last Day to Register Opposition

Storming “Little Gitmo”: Lawsuit Challenges Restricted Units in Federal Prisons

“I Spent 29 Years in Solitary Confinement”

Russian “Spy” Anna Chapman Chose Deportation Over Solitary Confinement

Court Rules Against Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

Our Father Who Art in Prison

Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude