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In what promises to be “the first in an occasional series of columns and editorials on mental illness and Michigan’s criminal justice and mental health care system,” the Detroit Free Press has published a powerful piece by Jeff Gerritt on the fate of prisoners with mental illness, who end up languishing in solitary–or worse. According to […]

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Shackled in Solitary: Prisoners with Mental Illness in Michigan’s Prisons

New ACLU Report Examines Devastating Impact of Solitary Confinement on Women

Videos Show Abuse of Mentally Ill in California Prisons

Private Prison Giant CCA Weighs in on Solitary Confinement

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

Mentally Ill in South Carolina’s Prisons Suffer Decades of Abuse and Neglect

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

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Federal Supermax Lawsuits

As 30,000 Join California Prison Hunger Strike, Corrections Officials Issue Guidelines on Starvation

Reports Condemn Solitary Confinement in New York City’s Jails, As Officials Weigh Its Future

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/7/13]

“Fatal Flaws” in the Colorado Solitary Confinement Study

How to Create Madness in Prison

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

Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer — and Die — in Arizona’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Lawsuit Charges Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Family of California Prisoner Who Died on Hunger Strike Speaks Out

Lawsuit Challenges South Carolina’s Use of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners with Mental Illness

Oregon Converts Supermax Unit to Treat Prisoners With Mental Illness

“Give Us in Here the Strength to See This Thing Through”: A Chronicle of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike

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

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

Maine Cuts Supermax Population, Reforms Solitary Confinement Practices

Mentally Ill Inmate Starves to Death in Utah Jail

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

Prisoner Grievances: “The System for Going Up Against the System”

Bill to Limit Solitary Confinement Introduced in Colorado Legislature