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“We’re here to question the existence and effects of the SHU,” stated California Assembly Member Tom Ammiano on Tuesday, “and we don’t think this new proposed policy goes nearly far enough.” Ammiano, who chairs the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee, was speaking at the second joint California Assembly-Senate hearing on the use of solitary confinement, including SHUs (Security Housing […]

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Solitary Confinement

At Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons, Advocates Challenge “Reforms”

Seven Months After Historic Prison Hunger Strike, Opponents of Solitary in California Gauge the Pace of Change

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/14]

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

Voices from Solitary: Hunger Strike in Menard Prison

New York Lawmakers Introduce Bill to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [2/2/14]

Voices from Solitary: Walk With Me — Life on the Inside of the SMU at USP Lewisburg

Prison Health Care: Is the American Health Profession Ignoring a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight?

Seven Days in Solitary [1/26/14]

Women in Solitary Confinement: Buried Inside the Federal Prison System

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/13]

As New York City Jails Amend Their Solitary Confinement Practices, Abuses on Rikers Island Continue

New Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil

Seven Days in Solitary [1/12/13]

Mentally Ill in South Carolina’s Prisons Suffer Decades of Abuse and Neglect

Seven Days in Solitary [1/5/14]

Voices from Solitary: “This Massive Mind-Fuck Machine”

Seven Days in Solitary [12/29/13]

War [on Crime] Is Over — If You Want It

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Seven Days in Solitary [12/22/13]

Voices from Solitary: Thin Comfort

DC’s Youth Face Solitary Confinement in District Jails and Federal Prisons

Seven Days in Solitary [12/15/13]

Solitary Confinement: Too Controversial for Costco

Women in Solitary Confinement: Sent to Solitary for Reporting Sexual Assault

Women in Solitary Confinement: “The Isolation Degenerates Us Into Madness”

Activists Urge U.S. Government to Grant UN Torture Expert Access to New York’s Prisons