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People held in Illinois prisons will receive an improved level of mental health care in coming years, thanks to a major class action settlement in late December. In the case of Ashoor Rasho v. John Baldwin, the Illinois Department of Corrections agrees to: Hire 300 new mental health workers, as well as additional security and […]

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Legal Settlement Demands Better Mental Health Care, Less Solitary Confinement in Illinois Prisons

California Expects to Save $28 Million By Reducing Solitary Confinement

California Bill Would Lift Media Ban on Access to Prisons

“New York’s Black Sites”: New Article About Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Unlock the Box: The Fight Against Solitary Confinement in New York

New Video: Dr. Terry Kupers on Solitary Confinement and Mental Health

“This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse”: An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

Will Lawsuits and Exposés Lead to Reform of Florida’s Brutal Prisons?

Guarding the Fortresses: How Prison Policies Limit Media Access to Solitary Confinement

Opposing the Architecture of Isolation: Architects Against Solitary Confinement

UPDATED: From One North Carolina Prison, Reports of an Eight-Month Lockdown

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

New Report Documents the “Waste, Cost and Harm” of Solitary Confinement in Texas

UN Torture Investigator Barred from Visiting American Supermax Prisons

London Calling

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

Kafka and the Debate Over Solitary Confinement

Working from the Inside Out

Prayers for People in Solitary Confinement

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

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Solitary Confinement Comes to Capitol Hill

“The Gray Box”: Must-Read Article (Plus Video) on Solitary Confinement in America