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A report just released by Amnesty International documents and denounces conditons in Arizona’s state prisons, including their gross overuse of long-term solitary confinement. A cogent summary of the report’s findings appears this morning in the Arizona Republic, in an article by Bob Ortega (who has written before about Arizona’s brutal prisons and jails): Arizona’s state prisons overuse solitary confinement […]

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“Cruel Isolation”: Amnesty International Report Blasts Conditions in Arizona’s Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “A Terribly Unique Experience”

Voices from Solitary: “Thoughts of Freedom Running Wild in My Head”

Leading Mental Health Experts Urge Illinois Legislators to Close Tamms Supermax

Pelican Bay SHU Prisoners Respond to California’s Proposed Prisons Reforms

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

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

“A Time to Speak Up”: Prisoner Freed After a Decade in Solitary Confinement in Pennsylvania

Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer — and Die — in Arizona’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Lawsuit Charges Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment

UN Human Rights Council Considers Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons

Decision of Federal Judge Frees Prisoner from Solitary Confinement

National and International Events Challenging Use of Solitary Confinement

New Ban on Solitary Confinement for Child Prisoners in Mississippi

Illinois Governor Proposes Closing Controversial Tamms Supermax Prison

Voices from Solitary: “The Isolated Prisoner”

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

Solitary Confinement in Virginia’s Prisons

Voices from Solitary: Christmas in the Hole, 1968

New York State Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement Reforms, Spike in Prison Suicide Rate

Solitary Confinement on Rikers Island: An Interview with the Prisoners Rights Project

City to Sharply Increase Solitary Confinement on Rikers Island

New Study: Solitary Confinement Overused in Colorado

New Video: UN Torture Expert Juan Mendez on Solitary Confinement

Reducing Solitary Confinement in Maine

Voices from Solitary: Hank Skinner’s Dispatches from Texas Death Row

Voices from Solitary: “Changing Prayer”

Freed from an Iranian Prison, Sarah Shourd Speaks Out for U.S. Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “There Must Never Be A Time When We Fail To Protest”