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Cañon City, Colorado, is the Solitary Confinement Capital of the Western World. Now, a Small Group Lawyers, Legislators, and Activists Is Challenging This All-American Form of Torture. Part 1: The Alcatraz of the Rockies On the wall opposite Laura Rovner’s desk at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law is a large framed drawing […]

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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”

Supermax Psych: “Behavior Modification” at Marion Federal Prison

New Resources on Solitary Confinement

Wilbert Rideau on Solitary Confinement: “The Zenith in Human Cruelty”

The Brutality of Supermax Confinement

ACLU and Experts Slam Findings of Colorado DOC Report On Solitary Confinement

The Solitary Men of Texas Death Row

Massachusetts Prisoner Who Exposed Sex-for-Snitching Ring Sent to Solitary

“Fatal Flaws” in the Colorado Solitary Confinement Study

Controversial Colorado Study Shows Prisoners “Improve” in Solitary Confinement

Fahad Hashmi Joins 1,400 Others in the Solitary Confinement Capital of the World

Children Routinely Held in Pre-Trial Solitary Confinement in Texas

Criminalizing Mental Illness

Suicide and Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “Home Sweet Home”

Teen Held in Solitary in Tennessee Jail Because He Can’t Make Bail

All-American Prison Torture

Voices from Solitary: Letters from the Hole

John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

Voices from Solitary: A Little Taste of “Freedom”