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Politics of Punishment

One of the reasons we started the Solitary Watch project was what we observed as a disconnect between the public’s awareness of (and reaction to) the abuses brought about by the so-called War on Terror of the last ten years, and those already in place as a result of the longstanding War on Crime. As we […]

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Politics of Punishment

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Incarceration Nation

As California Implements Some Solitary Confinement Reforms, Prisoners Remain Skeptical

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

Federal Bureau of Prisons to Undergo Review of Solitary Confinement Practices

Thirty Days in Solitary

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy: “Solitary Confinement Literally Drives Men Mad”

Law Aimed at Silencing People Convicted of Crimes Is Declared Unconstitutional

In Open Letter to President Obama, Groups Push for Solitary Confinement Reforms

Controversy Erupts at Public Meeting on New Rikers Island Isolation Units

The Solitary Men of Texas Death Row

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

New Federal Budget: Plenty of Money for Prisons

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Prison Segregation and Racial Disparities

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

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Faces and Voices of the California Prison Hunger Strike

Inside the American Supermax

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

For Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, A Year of Incremental Reform

Solitary Not Yet Over at Rikers, But Advocates Keep Fighting

Working from the Inside Out

Holder Makes Obama Administration’s First Public Statement on Solitary Confinement

“Disappearing” the Disadvantaged Into Prison, and Into Solitary Confinement

As New York City Jails Amend Their Solitary Confinement Practices, Abuses on Rikers Island Continue

In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

Measure to Limit Solitary Confinement Advances in Senate Immigration Bill