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The Salt Lake City Tribune reports that a young prisoner who apparently suffered from serious mental illness died of starvation and dehydration after spending four months in the Salt Lake County Jail, much of them in solitary confinement. Carlos Umana, 20, weighed at 180 pounds when he entered the jail in October 2010; when he died […]

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Mentally Ill Inmate Starves to Death in Utah Jail

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Maine Cuts Supermax Population, Reforms Solitary Confinement Practices

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Voices from Solitary: “An Insane Asylum Disguised As an SMU”

Voices from Solitary: A Mother’s Story

America’s Most Isolated Federal Prisoner Describes 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Colorado Department of Corrections in Need of Correction

Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

Solitary Confinement Comes to Capitol Hill

Voices from Solitary: “Destroyed Souls”

Isolation Units Within U.S. Prisons: CCR Panel Discussion in San Francisco

Tolerating Torture

Voices from Solitary: Live from Lockdown

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

Voices from Solitary: Lane Nelson on Angola’s Death Row

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

Voices from Solitary: Imprisoned in the First Control Unit for Women

ACLU Takes a Strong Stand Against Solitary Confinement

Bill to Limit Solitary Confinement Introduced in Colorado Legislature

ACLU Urges UN to Take Action on Solitary Confinement in the United States

Former Detainee Describes Solitary Confinement at Guantanamo

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

“Smart on Crime” Coalition Declares “Isolated Confinement Is Overused and Harmful”

Prison Myth No. 1: “Prisoners Want to Go Into Solitary Confinement”

Voices from Solitary: “Worse Than Angola”