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Amid growing controversy around the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails, and in advance of an audit of its own prison “segregation” practices, the federal government is quietly moving ahead with a plan that would significantly increase its capacity to house individuals in long-term isolation. The 2015 Omnibus Appropriations bill passed by […]

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Solitary Confinement

New Federal Supermax Prison Will Double Capacity for Extreme Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [1/11/2015]

For Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, A Year of Incremental Reform

Voices from Solitary: Cycle of Despair

Seven Days in Solitary [1/4/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/28/2014]

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Controversy Erupts at Public Meeting on New Rikers Island Isolation Units

Seven Days in Solitary [12/21/2014]

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

Under Fire for Negligence, North Carolina Prisons Chief Seeks New Mental Health Funding

Seven Days in Solitary [12/14/2014]

Arizona Opens New $50M Supermax Prison; Report Denounces State’s Use of Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Life of an Escape Artist

Seven Days in Solitary [12/07/2014]

UN Committee on Torture Says U.S. Must Reform Its Use of Solitary Confinement

Fates Worse Than Death?

Seven Days in Solitary [11/30/2014]

Working from the Inside Out

Seven Days in Solitary [11/23/2014]

After 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Will the Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Be a Free Man?

UN Committee on Torture Questions U.S. Record on Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/2014]

Voices from Solitary: Is It Normal to Think That?

On Trial for Protesting Conditions in Solitary Confinement: The Case of the Dallas 6

Seven Days in Solitary [11/09/2014]

Voices from Solitary: Is “Torture” Too Strong of a Word?

“A Girl Hung Herself Yesterday”: Deaths in Custody at California Institution for Women