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

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by Sal Rodriguez

October 25, 2012

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

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

April 15, 2010

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Supermax Psych: “Behavior Modification” at Marion Federal Prison

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 22, 2011

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

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by Jean Casella

February 4, 2014

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Kids in Solitary Confinement: America’s Official Child Abuse

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

October 11, 2012

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

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by Jean Casella

February 21, 2014

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

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by Sal Rodriguez

April 8, 2013

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

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by Sal Rodriguez

December 4, 2013

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Judge Rules Against Colorado Supermax That Keeps Prisoners Indoors for Years

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

August 30, 2012

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

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

September 20, 2012

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Utah Supermax Prisoners Report Being “Treated Like an Animal”

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by Sal Rodriguez

February 15, 2013

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Criminalizing Mental Illness: The Story of Adam Hall

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

May 14, 2012

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

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

November 22, 2013

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Massachusetts Court Rules Against Solitary Confinement Without Due Process

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by Beth Broyles

November 30, 2012

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

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

March 21, 2013

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

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

May 12, 2010

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Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 15, 2011

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Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

March 22, 2010

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

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 2, 2011

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Controversial Colorado Study Shows Prisoners “Improve” in Solitary Confinement

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

November 7, 2010

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Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

May 3, 2010

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The Ten Worst Prisons in America

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

May 2, 2013

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

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

February 28, 2014

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A Preventable Death in an Arizona Prison

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

March 9, 2013

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

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

March 13, 2013

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

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

November 5, 2012

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

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 7, 2010

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

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by Jean Casella

February 27, 2010

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

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

October 6, 2012

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