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The U.S. Bureau of Prisons currently holds more than 12,400 individuals in 23-hour-a-day lockdown, making it the largest practitioner of solitary and other forms of isolated confinement in the nation, and most likely the world. Yet the BOP does not know whether its use of “segregated housing” has any impact on prison safety, how it affects the prisoners […]

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Politics of Punishment

GAO Report Questions Widespread Use of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons

Board of Correction Votes Against Limiting Solitary Confinement in New York City Jails

California Prisoners Launch New Hunger Strike to Protest Solitary Confinement

California Prison Hunger Strikers to Be Force-Fed

Oversight in British Prisons: A Model for the U.S.?

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

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Prison Myth No. 1: “Prisoners Want to Go Into Solitary Confinement”

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

How to Create Madness in Prison

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

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

For Jamie Scott, an $11 Robbery in Mississippi May Carry a Death Sentence

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

Solitary Confinement Comes to Capitol Hill

Historic California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

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

New Study: Solitary Confinement Overused in Colorado

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement and the Law

Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

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

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

Maine Reduces Use of Solitary Confinement

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison

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

Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”