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Last week we wrote about a trial beginning in Federal District Court in Denver, in which Troy Anderson, a prisoner with mental illness, is challenging his twelve years of solitary confinement at the Colorado State Penitentiary. The lawsuit, filed by student lawyers at the University of Denver Law School’s Civil Right Clinic, could have broad significance because it […]

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Solitary Confinement

Federal Judge Criticizes Supermax Confinement in Colorado

Transgender Immigrant Detainees Locked in Solitary Confinement

Children in Solitary

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in California Respond to Prison Policy Reforms

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Voices from Solitary: Waking Nightmares

Testimony from Hearing on Closure of Tamms Supermax Prison

Families of California Prisoners Respond to Controversial Reforms of Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement Leads to Suffering and Suicide in Pennsylvania’s Prisons

Montana Settlement Limits Solitary Confinement for Juveniles, Prisoners with Mental Illness

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

New Film Explores “the Injustice of Solitary Confinement and the Transformative Power of Art”

Connecticut Votes to Replace the Death Penalty with Life in Solitary Confinement

European Human Rights Court Rules Terror Suspects Can Be Extradited to U.S. Supermax

“Complete Lawlessness” at Orleans Parish Prison

40 Years in Solitary: New BBC Program on the Angola 3 Case

“Cruel Isolation”: Amnesty International Report Blasts Conditions in Arizona’s Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “A Terribly Unique Experience”

Voices from Solitary: “Thoughts of Freedom Running Wild in My Head”

More Suicides in Solitary Plague Massachusetts Prisons

Leading Mental Health Experts Urge Illinois Legislators to Close Tamms Supermax

Solitary Confinement Rises Sharply on Rikers Island — and Activists Respond

Pelican Bay SHU Prisoners Respond to California’s Proposed Prisons Reforms

Solitary Confinement in New York (and in the New York Times)

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

North Carolina Prisoners Report Being Put in Solitary Confinement for Going on Strike

California Announces Reform of Controversial Policies That Led to Prison Hunger Strike

“The Gray Box”: Upcoming New York Event on Solitary Confinement

“A Time to Speak Up”: Prisoner Freed After a Decade in Solitary Confinement in Pennsylvania