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Prisoners in California’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) have offered their opinions of the recent reforms of the California prison system’s controversial gang validation policies. In correspondences with Solitary Watch, people held in SHU at Pelican Bay and Corcoran prisons have consistently been critical of the reforms, which among other things reform the gang validation point system […]

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Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in California Respond to Prison Policy Reforms

Amnesty International Releases Report Condemning California Prison Isolation Units

California Prisoners Launch New Hunger Strike on October 10th

California Prison Hunger Strike: “It’s an Absolute Madhouse”

Calipatria Hunger Striker: “Putting Everything On The Line For Dignity”

Day 41 of California Hunger Strike: CDCR Still Insists It’s A Gang Power Play

As California Implements Some Solitary Confinement Reforms, Prisoners Remain Skeptical

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

“Systemic Failures Persist” in California Prison Mental Health Care, Judge Rules

How Many People Are In Solitary Confinement in California’s Prisons?

New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard

Federal Bureau of Prisons Details Plans for Limited “Audit” of Solitary Confinement Practices

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

The Odyssey to Pelican Bay: Families Journey to California’s Notorious Supermax Prison

Hundreds Still on Hunger Strike in California Prisons As Situation Becomes Increasingly Dire

Children in Lockdown: Solitary Confinement of Teens in Adult Prisons

Faces and Voices of the California Prison Hunger Strike

California Prison Hunger Strikes Sparked Solitary Reforms, Internal Documents Show

UN: Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Can Be Torture, Force-Feeding Unacceptable

Videos Show Abuse of Mentally Ill in California Prisons

Judge Rules California Solitary Confinement Lawsuit Should Have Its Day in Court

California Prisoners Launch New Hunger Strike to Protest Solitary Confinement

California Prison Officials Retaliating Against Hunger Strikers

Pat Nolan’s Evangelical Prison Reform

Historic California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

The Truth About Solitary Confinement in California

NYCLU to Host Meeting on Solitary Confinement in New York State

California Considers New Rules for Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

California Bill Would Increase Media Access to Prisoners