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“I write, read, cry, sleep and beg for death.” That is how fifty-six-year-old inmate J., in Utah State Prison, Draper’s Uinta 1 facility describes life in Utah’s isolation units, which houses the state’s death row prisoners in addition to inmates placed there for disciplinary issues. J. has spent six years in Uinta 1, a place […]

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Solitary Confinement

“I Write, Read, Cry, Sleep and Beg for Death”: Life In Utah’s Supermax

Live from Death Row: 3,600 Americans Waiting Alone to Die

Supermax Psych: “Behavior Modification” at Marion Federal Prison

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

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America’s Official Child Abuse

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

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

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

Judge Rules Against Colorado Supermax That Keeps Prisoners Indoors for Years

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

Utah Supermax Prisoners Report Being “Treated Like an Animal”

Criminalizing Mental Illness: The Story of Adam Hall

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

Massachusetts Court Rules Against Solitary Confinement Without Due Process

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 “Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement”

Abuse and Cover-Up in California Prisons’ “Behavior Management Units”

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

Illinois Prisoner Says Years of Solitary Confinement Caused Mental Illness, Self-Mutilation

Controversial Colorado Study Shows Prisoners “Improve” in Solitary Confinement

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

The Ten Worst Prisons in America

Doing “Bing Time”: Memories of a Mental Health Worker in Rikers Island’s Solitary Confinement Unit

A Preventable Death in an Arizona Prison

The Hidden History of Solitary Confinement in New Jersey’s Control Units

Mentally Ill Man Dies, Injured and Alone, in a Tulsa Jail Cell

The Machinery of Death: Some Death Row Prisoners Can Still Opt for Firing Squad (or Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, or Noose)

Charles Dickens on Solitary Confinement: “Immense Torture and Agony”

Extradited to a Future of Torture in a U.S. Supermax Prison