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Most residents of the nation’s death rows live in long-term solitary confinement, in what are effectively supermax units for the condemned. They are subject to all of the devastating psychological and physical effects of prolonged isolation, with the added torment of knowing that someday they will more than likely be put to death at the hands of the state. According to […]

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Live from Death Row: 3,600 Americans Waiting Alone to Die

Supermax Psych: “Behavior Modification” at Marion Federal Prison

New York Lawmakers Introduce Bill to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America’s Official Child Abuse

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

Utah Supermax Prisoners Report Being “Treated Like an Animal”

Criminalizing Mental Illness: The Story of Adam Hall

Federal Bureau of Prisons Details Plans for Limited “Audit” of Solitary Confinement Practices

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 “Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement”

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

Illinois Prisoner Says Years of Solitary Confinement Caused Mental Illness, Self-Mutilation

Controversial Colorado Study Shows Prisoners “Improve” in Solitary Confinement

The Ten Worst Prisons in America

Doing “Bing Time”: Memories of a Mental Health Worker in Rikers Island’s Solitary Confinement Unit

The Machinery of Death: Some Death Row Prisoners Can Still Opt for Firing Squad (or Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, or Noose)

Charles Dickens on Solitary Confinement: “Immense Torture and Agony”

Extradited to a Future of Torture in a U.S. Supermax Prison

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Profile of an ADX Prisoner: “Just Half Crazy And Trying To Hold On To The Other Half”

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

What Solitary Confinement Does to the Human Brain

Torture on Death Row: Court Rules Against Automatic Use of Solitary Confinement for the Condemned

Federal Supermax Prison “in Violation of International Law”: Amnesty International

Federal Appeals Court Considers Tommy Silverstein’s 30 Years in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Angola 3’s Herman Wallace, Gravely Ill, Still Held in Isolation

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

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