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It was Gay Pride weekend in New York City, but the event’s celebratory spirit was absent from Michelle Scott’s tidy second-floor apartment on a leafy street near Brooklyn College. Her child, Carey Smith, is a transgender woman currently locked up in solitary confinement in Upstate Correctional Facility, a men’s supermax prison located in the Adirondacks. […]

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Transgender Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Sexual Assault

“A Girl Hung Herself Yesterday”: Deaths in Custody at California Institution for Women

Audit of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons: An Inside Job Reaches Foregone Conclusions

On Trial for Protesting Conditions in Solitary Confinement: The Case of the Dallas 6

Way Down in the Hole: Senate Hearing Challenges Solitary Confinement for Some, But Not All

In a Maryland Jail, Teens Charged As Adults Face Isolation and Neglect

Fates Worse Than Death?

Movement to End Juvenile Solitary Confinement Gains Ground, But Hundreds of Kids Remain in Isolation

New Book (and New York Events) on Solitary Confinement by Dr. Terry Kupers Join Expertise to Empathy

Could This Be the Worst Solitary Confinement Unit in the Nation?

“Witness to Human Torture”: On Both Sides of the Prison Walls, Social Workers Confront Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement Caused “Complete Mental and Physical Collapse” of Man in Virginia Prison, Lawsuit Contends

How Solitary Confinement Can Lead to a Life Sentence in Prison

Even Brief Exposure to Solitary Confinement May Increase Risk of Death After Prison

In Indiana Prisons, Solitary Confinement by Another Name Still Feels Like Torture

D.C. Jail: From Hellhole to Hotspot

Seven Days in Solitary [8/31/20]

Inside ADX Supermax: “A Bloody Nightmare”

Aging Alone: Uncovering the Risk of Solitary Confinement for People Over 45

No End to U.S. Torture

U.S. Government Tells UN: “No Systematic Use of Solitary Confinement in the United States”

New Video: UN Torture Expert Juan Mendez on Solitary Confinement

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Pelican Bay Prisoners File Lawsuit Against Long-Term Isolation

Suicide and Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Indiana’s Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Violates Constitution

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

Solitary Confinement in New York (and in the New York Times)