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On Tuesday, September 18th the Pennsylvania House Democratic Party Policy Committee will hold a hearing entitled “Effects of Solitary Confinement.” The hearing will feature testimony from Dr. Terry Kupers, Dr. Craig Haney, former Restricted Housing Unit inmate LuQman Abdullah, and others. The hearing will be at 10:00 AM at Temple University, President’s Conference Suite, First Floor, 1810 […]

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Pennsylvania Legislators to Hold Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Federal Prisons Chief Sends Memo Urging Prisoners Not to Kill Themselves

AFSC Releases “Survivors Manual” By and For Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Shutting Down a Supermax: An Interview With Alan Mills of the Uptown People’s Law Center

“New York’s Black Sites”: New Article About Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

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

Congress Unlocks America’s Hidden Shame of Solitary Confinement

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “The SHU Is California’s Equivalent of Waterboarding”

First Congressional Hearing on Solitary Confinement to Be Held June 19

Controversy Over Kids in Solitary Confinement in Texas

Voices from Solitary: A Lose-Lose Situation

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in California Respond to Prison Policy Reforms

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

Connecticut Votes to Replace the Death Penalty with Life in Solitary Confinement

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

New Federal Budget: Plenty of Money for Prisons

New York State Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement Reforms, Spike in Prison Suicide Rate

Beyond Guantánamo, There’s Long-Term Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons

City to Sharply Increase Solitary Confinement on Rikers Island

New Study: Solitary Confinement Overused in Colorado

New Video: Charlie and Pauline Sullivan of C.U.R.E.

Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

NYC Bar Association Issues Report on “The Brutality of Supermax Confinement”

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement and the Law

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

Locked Up and Left Behind: Hurricane Irene and the Prisoners on New York’s Rikers Island

Historic California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Washington Post Takes a Stand Against the “Invisible Brutality That Is Solitary Confinement”