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David “Joey” Pedersen was arrested in 1997 for armed robbery. He was 16 years old, had been taking the antidepressant Zoloft for years (which he continued to take throughout his incarceration), and was determined to have a “slight” potential for violence. Due to Oregon’s Measure 11, he was charged as an adult. Pedersen joined prison gangs and […]

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“Total Isolation”: Solitary Confinement in Oregon

Tamms Supermax Prison Closure Temporarily Halted

Voices from Solitary: A Man’s Strength Behind a Steel Door

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Solitary Confinement: New York’s Hidden Problem

Voices from Solitary: A Spark in the Dark

New Report Examines the Hardships of Life After Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: What Happens When the War Is Over

One Year After Historic Hunger Strike, Isolated California Prisoners Report Little Change

Pennsylvania Prisoner Commits Suicide in Isolation Unit

AFSC Releases “Survivors Manual” By and For Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Surviving the “Prison Within a Prison”

New Video: “Solitary Confinement: The Season of Sorrow”

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

Voices from Solitary: “A Sort of Solitary Psychosis”

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

Voices from Solitary: “No Human Being Should Be Treated This Way”

Voices from Solitary: “Loneliness Is a Destroyer of Humanity”

Guantanamo “Is Not an Aberration”: How the War on Terror Came Home

A Day in the Life of Three Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

Lawsuit Challenges Conditions at ADX Federal Supermax

Voices from Solitary: “I Lost the Will to Live”

Solitary and Death Row Survivor Anthony Graves Speaks Out

Congress Unlocks America’s Hidden Shame of Solitary Confinement

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: From a Nevada Hole

Voices from Solitary: From the Vortex of Uinta One

Voices from Solitary: “No Longer a Part of the World”