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Today’s Advocate has an excellent article by Andrew Harmon, dissecting the abuses faced by transgender detainees in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities. It begins with the story of a transgender woman who spent eight months in solitary confinement in a Virginia jail: A few days after Christmas last year, Ruby Corado, a longtime transgender activist in […]

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Sexual Assault

Transgender Immigrant Detainees Locked in Solitary Confinement

Children Spend Months in Solitary Confinement in Texas Jails

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

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America’s Official Child Abuse

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

The Ten Worst Prisons in America

Civil Rights Groups Demand Change for Transgender Women Held in Solitary in New York’s Prisons

New ACLU Report Examines Devastating Impact of Solitary Confinement on Women

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

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

Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

Prison Whistleblower Condemned to Solitary Confinement

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

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

Our Homegrown American Gitmos

Solitary Confinement for Transgender Inmate in Virginia

LGBT Kids in Prison Face Rape, Beatings, and Isolation

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