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This story by Adam Lynn, about Washington state’s McNeil Island Correctional Center in Puget Sound, appeared recently in The Olympian. It’s one extreme example of the retaliatory use of solitary confinement by prison staff. The guardians of a state prison inmate who suffered brain damage when he tried to hang himself claim in a lawsuit that at the time he […]

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Inmate Allegedly Placed in Solitary for Refusing to Bribe Guards

The Maine Redemption: Bill Seeks to Restrict Use of Solitary in State’s Prisons

The Hashmi Case Brings Guantanamo Home

Freed British Hostage Evokes Trauma of Solitary Confinement

ACLU Says Teen Tortured at Montana Prison

The End of Tamms Supermax

Twelve Years in Solitary, and “Still in Illegal Limbo”

As California Implements Some Solitary Confinement Reforms, Prisoners Remain Skeptical

State Bar Association Calls on New York to “Profoundly Restrict” Its Use of Solitary Confinement

“Sick and in Solitary” on Rikers Island

New Article in Fortune News: “Suffering in Solitary”

Bradley Manning Marks 1,000 Days in Pre-Trial Detention

The “Vicious Cycles” Created by Solitary Confinement

Montana Legislature Considers Solitary Confinement Reform

The Solitary Connection: Was Clements Suspect Affected by Years in Prison Isolation?

Thirty Days in Solitary

U.S. DOJ Documents Torturous Treatment in Pennsylvania Solitary Confinement Unit

Prison Health Care: Is the American Health Profession Ignoring a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight?

Advisers to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hold Briefing on Juvenile Solitary Confinement in New York

Arizona Opens New $50M Supermax Prison; Report Denounces State’s Use of Solitary

Corrections Officer Found Guilty in Death in a Rikers Island Solitary Cell

Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Shackling While Pregnant or Sick

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy: “Solitary Confinement Literally Drives Men Mad”

With Loved Ones in Prison, Women Lead the Fight Against Solitary Confinement in New York

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Invites Constitutional Challenge of Solitary Confinement

After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

Controversy Erupts at Public Meeting on New Rikers Island Isolation Units

The Solitary Men of Texas Death Row

“I Write, Read, Cry, Sleep and Beg for Death”: Life In Utah’s Supermax