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Guest Post by Bonnie Kerness Editor’s Note: Bonnie Kerness of the American Friends Service Committee’s Prison Watch Project was one of the first Americans to name the widespread use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons as a form of torture. Her longtime battle against this practice is just one chapter in a lifetime spent in various forms of social justice […]

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Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

For Jamie Scott, an $11 Robbery in Mississippi May Carry a Death Sentence

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Beyond Guantánamo, There’s Long-Term Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons

Abu Ghraib, California: Report Shows Brutal Abuse of Prisoners in LA County Jails

Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

“Where Punishment Becomes Torture”: Testimony of Dorsey Nunn on Solitary Confinement

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

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

Angola 3 Mark 39 Years in Solitary Confinement

Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Report from Panel Discussion on Prison Isolation Units

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

The Scott Sisters’ “Debt to Society” and the New Jim Crow

After 16 Years Behind Bars for an $11 Robbery, the Scott Sisters Will Be Free at Last

Supreme Court Decision Limits Juvenile Life Without Parole (Within Limits)

A Chance at Freedom for the Scott Sisters?

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

“I Spent 29 Years in Solitary Confinement”

Our Father Who Art in Prison

Prisoner Sent to Solitary Based on Reading Materials

Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude