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City Limits has comprehensive coverage of the ongoing rise in solitary confinement on Rikers Island (which we wrote about here back in November). The article begins: Over the last two years, the Department of Correction has nearly doubled the number of “punitive segregation” cells—the Department’s term for solitary confinement—at the jail facilities at Rikers Island. The […]

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Solitary Confinement Rises Sharply on Rikers Island — and Activists Respond

Former Rikers Island Chaplain Speaks Out Against Growth of Solitary Confinement

Demonstrators Protest Solitary Confinement and Brutality in New York City’s Jails

Prisoners to Remain on Rikers Island As Hurricane Sandy Heads for New York: UPDATED

“Sick and in Solitary” on Rikers Island

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

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

Controversy Erupts at Public Meeting on New Rikers Island Isolation Units

Doing “Bing Time”: Memories of a Mental Health Worker in Rikers Island’s Solitary Confinement Unit

Locked Up and Left Behind: Hurricane Irene and the Prisoners on New York’s Rikers Island

Solitary Not Yet Over at Rikers, But Advocates Keep Fighting

On Rikers Island, an End to the Solitary Confinement of Children

As New York City Jails Amend Their Solitary Confinement Practices, Abuses on Rikers Island Continue

Board of Correction Votes Against Limiting Solitary Confinement in New York City Jails

Reports Condemn Solitary Confinement in New York City’s Jails, As Officials Weigh Its Future

Solitary Confinement on Rikers Island: An Interview with the Prisoners Rights Project

City Responds on Emergency Plans for Rikers Island

DSK’s “Tiny” Cell Was Spacious by U.S. Solitary Confinement Standards