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As the first in a planned series of reports, the Vera Institute for Justice’s Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative has published Solitary Confinement: Common Misconceptions and Emerging Safe Alternatives. As noted in the overview to the report: Evidence mounts that the practice produces many unwanted and harmful outcomes—for the mental and physical health of those placed […]

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Psychological Effects

New Report Highlights 10 Destructive Myths About Solitary Confinement

With Loved Ones in Prison, Women Lead the Fight Against Solitary Confinement in New York

New Report Documents Brutal Treatment of People with Mental Illness in U.S. Prisons and Jails

Legislation Limiting Solitary Confinement in New York Gains Momentum

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

Officials, Advocates Call for Restrictions on Solitary Confinement in Wisconsin

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy: “Solitary Confinement Literally Drives Men Mad”

Audit of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons: An Inside Job Reaches Foregone Conclusions

Voices from Solitary: “I Am Somebody’s Daughter”

Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Shackling While Pregnant or Sick

Voices from Solitary: On Hunger Strike Against Brutal Treatment in Florida Prisons

New Report Documents the “Waste, Cost and Harm” of Solitary Confinement in Texas

Voices from Solitary: My Tranz Brothers and Sisters Are There, Boxed

Voices from Solitary: Cycle of Despair

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

Controversy Erupts at Public Meeting on New Rikers Island Isolation Units

Corrections Officer Found Guilty in Death in a Rikers Island Solitary Cell

Arizona Opens New $50M Supermax Prison; Report Denounces State’s Use of Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Life of an Escape Artist

Fates Worse Than Death?

UN Committee on Torture Questions U.S. Record on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Is It Normal to Think That?

On Trial for Protesting Conditions in Solitary Confinement: The Case of the Dallas 6

Voices from Solitary: Is “Torture” Too Strong of a Word?

“A Girl Hung Herself Yesterday”: Deaths in Custody at California Institution for Women

Voices from Solitary: The Heaviness of Blood

Pope Francis Denounces Solitary Confinement, Calls for Prison Conditions That “Respect Human Dignity”

Voices from Solitary: Survivors Speak

Voices from Solitary: Freedom Shares My Cell