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Maine Attorney General Janet Mills reportedly will review the results of an investigation by the state police into the death of a prisoner named Victor Valdez, who died last November in the Special Management Unit (SMU) of Maine State Prison. While the Maine Department of Corrections says he died of natural causes, inmates who say they witnessed the […]

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Another Suspicious Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Montana Teen Who Faced Torture in Prison Asks Judge to Keep Him Out of Solitary

Two Inmates Die in Agony As Prison Staff Stands By

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Oregon Converts Supermax Unit to Treat Prisoners With Mental Illness

Saving Jamie Scott, Victim of Prison Health Care

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

Teen Kills Himself After Being Put in Solitary for…Trying to Kill Himself

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

Johnny Cash: Solitary Man

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Voices from Solitary: Coyote Calling

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

A Lonely–and Preventable–Death in a Vermont Prison