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The latest issue of The Nation includes an excellent article by Matt Stroud, about the common practice in Pennsylvania of placing prisoners with serious mental illness in solitary confinement–where, unsurprisingly, they sometimes resort to suicide. The article begins: By the time John McClellan Jr. was found dead inside Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Cresson last […]

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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

Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer — and Die — in Arizona’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Lawsuit Charges Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment

UN Human Rights Council Considers Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons

Decision of Federal Judge Frees Prisoner from Solitary Confinement

National and International Events Challenging Use of Solitary Confinement

New Ban on Solitary Confinement for Child Prisoners in Mississippi

New Federal Budget: Plenty of Money for Prisons

Family of California Prisoner Who Died on Hunger Strike Speaks Out