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Dr. Craig Haney, Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz, testified before the California Assembly’s Committee on Public Safety on August 23rd, 2011 regarding the issue of California’s Security Housing Units (SHUs). Dr. Haney provides a historical overview of the use of solitary confinement, litigation and research on solitary confinement, and […]

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“Pawns in a Failed Experiment”: Testimony of Dr. Craig Haney on Solitary Confinement

“Toxic Conditions”: Testimony of Dr. Terry Kupers on Solitary Confinement

“A Form of Torture”: Testimony of Laura Magnani on Solitary Confinement

“The Destruction of the Human Spirit”: Testimony of Rev. William McGarvey on Solitary Confinement

Washington Post Takes a Stand Against the “Invisible Brutality That Is Solitary Confinement”

“Give Us in Here the Strength to See This Thing Through”: A Chronicle of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike

New from Solitary Watch: Original Videos on Solitary Confinement

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

Maine Reduces Use of Solitary Confinement

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison

As Prisoners End Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay, Their Cause Continues

Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement Widely Used in California’s Juvenile Jails

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

Maine Cuts Supermax Population, Reforms Solitary Confinement Practices

Mentally Ill Inmate Starves to Death in Utah Jail

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

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

Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

Tolerating Torture

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

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

Bill to Limit Solitary Confinement Introduced in Colorado Legislature

ACLU Takes a Strong Stand Against Solitary Confinement

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

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

Former Detainee Describes Solitary Confinement at Guantanamo