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Today, some inmates in the Security Housing Units (SHUs) at Pelican Bay and Calipatria State Prisons in California will resume a hunger strike demanding reforms ranging from nutritious meals to reducing the use of long-term solitary confinement. In response to a three-week hunger strike this past summer, the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee held a hearing on […]

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Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: The “Life Negating Emptiness” of the Pelican Bay SHU

The Truth About Solitary Confinement in California

The Torture of Troy Davis

NYC Bar Association Issues Report on “The Brutality of Supermax Confinement”

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement and the Law

California Teachers Union Letter of Support for Educational Programming in Solitary Confinement

California SHU Inmates to Resume Hunger Strike September 26th

Voices from Solitary: “Beyond Inhumane”

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

“I Never Will Abandon This Hope”: Testimony of a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker on Solitary Confinement

“Where Punishment Becomes Torture”: Testimony of Dorsey Nunn on Solitary Confinement

“A Form of Torture”: Testimony of Laura Magnani on Solitary Confinement

Voices From Solitary: Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Was “the Only Way to Get the Word Out” About Prison Abuses

Pelican Bay Prisoners Plan to Resume Hunger Strike

“The Destruction of the Human Spirit”: Testimony of Rev. William McGarvey on Solitary Confinement

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

“Pawns in a Failed Experiment”: Testimony of Dr. Craig Haney on Solitary Confinement

“Toxic Conditions”: Testimony of Dr. Terry Kupers on Solitary Confinement

Historic California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere”

Washington Post Takes a Stand Against the “Invisible Brutality That Is Solitary Confinement”

Voices from Solitary: Welcome to Supermax

“Give Us in Here the Strength to See This Thing Through”: A Chronicle of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike

New from Solitary Watch: Original Videos on Solitary Confinement

New Solitary Watch Print Edition (Summer 2011) Now Available

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison