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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with California-based Prison Law Office and their co-counsel in federal class action lawsuit Parsons v. Ryan, has released a series of 26 reports alleging extensive problems with the Arizona Department of Corrections’ (ADC) healthcare program and its use of solitary confinement. Prison Law Office director Don Specter stated the groups requested the reports from national experts in […]

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Reports Condemn Healthcare and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons

Canada Questions Solitary Confinement After Teenager’s Death

Solitary Deaths in Immigrant Detention Centers

The Maine Redemption: Bill Seeks to Restrict Use of Solitary in State’s Prisons

New Article in Fortune News: “Suffering in Solitary”

Thirty Days in Solitary

Prison Health Care: Is the American Health Profession Ignoring a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight?

Settlement to Improve Arizona’s Prison Health Care, Limit Use of Solitary Confinement

Corrections Officer Found Guilty in Death in a Rikers Island Solitary Cell

Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Shackling While Pregnant or Sick

Criminalizing Mental Illness: The Story of Adam Hall

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

The Ten Worst Prisons in America

Doing “Bing Time”: Memories of a Mental Health Worker in Rikers Island’s Solitary Confinement Unit

A Preventable Death in an Arizona Prison

Mentally Ill Man Dies, Injured and Alone, in a Tulsa Jail Cell

Severely Disabled Man Sues New York State Prisons for Neglect, Abuse

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

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

California Prison Conditions Driving Prisoners to Suicide

Ninety Years Old, Deaf, and in the Hole in a Florida Prison

In Canada, a Death in Prison Sparks Debate, Lawsuits Over Solitary Confinement

New Report Documents Brutal Treatment of People with Mental Illness in U.S. Prisons and Jails

At Louisiana’s Angola Prison, Lawsuit Claims, the Sick Face Neglect, Isolation, and Death

Report Blasts Conditions at District of Columbia Jail

Lawsuit Charges Delaware Prison System With Neglect and Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Pennsylvania Prison System Faces Lawsuit Over Suicide of Young Man with Mental Illness