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Guest Post by Lance Tapley In 1986 Ojore Lutalo, a black revolutionary in the Trenton State Prison — now the New Jersey State Prison — wrote to Bonnie Kerness’s American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) office in Newark. His letter described the extreme isolation and other brutalities in the prison’s Management Control Unit, which he called a “prison […]

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Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement

Members of Congress Call for Investigation of Louisiana’s Use of Solitary Confinement, Treatment of Angola 3

“This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse”: An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

After 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Will the Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Be a Free Man?

Federal Judge Orders Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Released After 43 Years in Solitary

Rastafarians Spend a Decade in Solitary for Refusing Haircuts

California Lawsuit Charges Race-Based Lockdown

California Assembly Reviews Solitary Confinement Policies As Prisoners Threaten New Hunger Strike

Advisers to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hold Briefing on Juvenile Solitary Confinement in New York

Law Aimed at Silencing People Convicted of Crimes Is Declared Unconstitutional

After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

Live from Death Row: 3,600 Americans Waiting Alone to Die

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 “Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement”

Abuse and Cover-Up in California Prisons’ “Behavior Management Units”

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

The Hidden History of Solitary Confinement in New Jersey’s Control Units

Extradited to a Future of Torture in a U.S. Supermax Prison

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Prison Segregation and Racial Disparities

Angola 3’s Herman Wallace, Gravely Ill, Still Held in Isolation

After 41 Years in Solitary, a Dying Herman Wallace Has His Conviction Overturned—-and Is Freed

Kalief Browder’s Life and Death Galvanize Action to End Solitary Confinement

With New Report, Prison Officials Commit to Reducing Their Use of Solitary Confinement

New Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil

One Month After Historic Hunger Strike, California Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Russell Maroon Shoatz: Resisting the “Spiritual Death” of Solitary Confinement

To See or Not to See: Capturing Herman Wallace’s 41 Years in Solitary

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

Mumia Abu-Jamal Challenges Death Row Solitary Confinement and Life Without Parole