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As we have written before, the three-week-long hunger strike in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay–which was joined by inmates at a dozen other California prisons–may have wrung few tangible concessions from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. But it achieved something less measurable, but in some senses far more important: For a […]

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Solitary Confinement

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

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Maine Reduces Use of Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

As Prisoners End Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay, Their Cause Continues

Statements from Human Rights and Civil Rights Groups Support Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers

Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

Who Are the Hunger Strikers? How Prisoners Land in Pelican Bay’s SHU

Update: Pelican Bay Prisoners Reject State Proposal, Continue Hunger Strike

Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

Texas Lockdown: Solitary Confinement in the Lone Star State

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: On Solitary Confinement and Finding Humanity

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Solitary Confinement Widely Used in California’s Juvenile Jails

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

Upcoming Forum in New York on Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

From BOP to CCA: Federal Prison Director Defects to Private Prison Company

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

Mentally Ill Inmate Starves to Death in Utah Jail

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Maine Cuts Supermax Population, Reforms Solitary Confinement Practices

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

DSK’s “Tiny” Cell Was Spacious by U.S. Solitary Confinement Standards

Voices from Solitary: “An Insane Asylum Disguised As an SMU”

Groups Urge Holder to Clean House at the Bureau of Prisons