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Dr. Terry Kupers, Institute Professor at the Wright Institute in San Francisco and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, is among the foremost national experts on the mental health effects of solitary confinement. Dr. Kupers delivered the keynote address at the Strategic Convening on Solitary Confinement and Human Rights, sponsored by the Midwest […]

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New Video: Dr. Terry Kupers on Solitary Confinement and Mental Health

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America’s Official Child Abuse

Children Spend Months in Solitary Confinement in Texas Jails

Transgender Immigrant Detainees Locked in Solitary Confinement

“Complete Lawlessness” at Orleans Parish Prison

The Silent, Terrifying World of a Deaf Prisoner

Abu Ghraib on the Allegheny: Sexual and Physical Abuse at Pennsylvania Prison

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

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

Prison Whistleblower Condemned to Solitary Confinement

Massachusetts Prisoner Who Exposed Sex-for-Snitching Ring Sent to Solitary

Our Homegrown American Gitmos

Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape Takes Her Case to the Supreme Court

Sex-for-Snitching Ring Reported at Massachusetts Prison

LGBT Kids in Prison Face Rape, Beatings, and Isolation

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

Solitary Confinement for Transgender Inmate in Virginia