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CHILDREN IN LOCKDOWN Earlier this month, Pete Brook’s Prison Photography blog featured the work of Richard Ross, whose latest project is “Suitable Placement: Juvenile Justice in America.” This large and devastatingly powerful collection of photographs includes many of children held in some form of solitary confinement, from traditional cells to “rubber rooms.” On his web […]

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Richard Ross Photographs Children in Solitary Confinement

New Federal Budget: Plenty of Money for Prisons

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Profile of an ADX Prisoner: “Just Half Crazy And Trying To Hold On To The Other Half”

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

Severely Disabled Man Sues New York State Prisons for Neglect, Abuse

What Solitary Confinement Does to the Human Brain

Prison Segregation and Racial Disparities

Torture on Death Row: Court Rules Against Automatic Use of Solitary Confinement for the Condemned

Federal Supermax Prison “in Violation of International Law”: Amnesty International

Federal Appeals Court Considers Tommy Silverstein’s 30 Years in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Angola 3’s Herman Wallace, Gravely Ill, Still Held in Isolation

The Odyssey to Pelican Bay: Families Journey to California’s Notorious Supermax Prison

Hundreds Still on Hunger Strike in California Prisons As Situation Becomes Increasingly Dire

After 41 Years in Solitary, a Dying Herman Wallace Has His Conviction Overturned—-and Is Freed

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

UPDATED: From One North Carolina Prison, Reports of an Eight-Month Lockdown

Video Shows Maine Prisoner with Mental Illness Brutally Subdued by Guards

California Prison Conditions Driving Prisoners to Suicide

Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison

What Solitary Confinement Does to the Brain

N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown

Ninety Years Old, Deaf, and in the Hole in a Florida Prison

Children in Lockdown: Solitary Confinement of Teens in Adult Prisons

Visiting Billy Blake After 25 Years in Solitary

A Day in the Life of Three Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Scientists Discover How Social Isolation Damages Young Brains

Faces and Voices of the California Prison Hunger Strike