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How influential were the three hunger strikes held by California prisoners in spurring the sweeping changes to solitary confinement policies that were announced yesterday? The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has repeatedly stated that they were already planning to reform long-term solitary confinement before the hunger strikes of 2011 and 2013. But internal documents obtained […]

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Solitary Confinement

California Prison Hunger Strikes Sparked Solitary Reforms, Internal Documents Show

In Landmark Settlement, Solitary Confinement to Be Dramatically Reduced in California Prisons

Seven Days in Solitary [8/30/2015]

Report Blasts Conditions at District of Columbia Jail

Seven Days in Solitary [8/23/2015]

Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement for Reading Materials, Other Minor Infractions

Seven Days in Solitary [8/16/2015]

Prison Watchdog Says Solitary Confinement in Canada Is “Out of Control”

Seven Days in Solitary [8/9/2015]

Can International Laws and Standards Help Curb Solitary Confinement in the United States?

Voices from Solitary: A Second-by-Second Attack on Your Soul

Seven Days in Solitary [8/2/2015]

British Supreme Court Rules Against Unlawful Use of Prolonged Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Segregation Medical

Seven Days in Solitary [7/26/2015]

UN Human Rights Experts (Again) Push for Access to U.S. Prisons, Call for Solitary Reform

Voices from Solitary: Injury x Insult

Seven Days in Solitary [7/19/2015]

UN’s “Mandela Rules” to Set New International Limits on Solitary Confinement

Obama, in Criminal Justice Speech, Denounces the “Overuse of Solitary Confinement” in U.S. Prisons

Voices from Solitary: Fly in the Ointment

Seven Days in Solitary [7/12/2015]

Kafka and the Debate Over Solitary Confinement

Irish Court Blocks Suspect’s Extradition to U.S., Citing Risk of Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [7/5/2015]

After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

Will Revamped Prison Regulations Reduce Solitary Confinement in California?

Kalief Browder’s Life and Death Galvanize Action to End Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [6/28/2015]