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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

Children in Solitary

Transgender Immigrant Detainees Locked in Solitary Confinement

Federal Judge Criticizes Supermax Confinement in Colorado

Children Spend Months in Solitary Confinement in Texas Jails

Mothers with Sons in Solitary Tell Their Stories

Montana Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer in Solitary Confinement

Virginia Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Launch Hunger Strike

Suicides in Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in Ohio Stage Two-Week Hunger Strike

Former Rikers Island Chaplain Speaks Out Against Growth of Solitary Confinement

Controversy Over Kids in Solitary Confinement in Texas

First Congressional Hearing on Solitary Confinement to Be Held June 19

Senate Committee Invites Written Testimony on Solitary Confinement

California Bill Would Lift Media Ban on Access to Prisons

Now Available: Collection of Written Testimony for Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Congress Unlocks America’s Hidden Shame of Solitary Confinement

Solitary and Death Row Survivor Anthony Graves Speaks Out

Lawsuit Challenges Conditions at ADX Federal Supermax

The “Torture of Isolation” Gains Media Attention

One Year Anniversary of Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement

Guantanamo “Is Not an Aberration”: How the War on Terror Came Home

Demonstrators Protest Solitary Confinement and Brutality in New York City’s Jails

“New York’s Black Sites”: New Article About Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Shutting Down a Supermax: An Interview With Alan Mills of the Uptown People’s Law Center

Death in Pennsylvania Solitary Confinement Cell Raises Questions

Washington Prisoner Subjected to Solitary Confinement for “Involuntary Protection”

AFSC Releases “Survivors Manual” By and For Prisoners in Solitary Confinement