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The New York Times today features an op-ed titled “Tortued by Solitude.” The author is Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans who were imprisoned in Iran beginning in the summer of 2009, when they were arrested and charged with espionage while hiking on the border with Iraqi Kurdistan. Her two male companions, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, […]

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Freed from an Iranian Prison, Sarah Shourd Speaks Out for U.S. Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Storm Over Rikers: Evacuating New York’s Island Jail

Voices from Solitary: “There Must Never Be A Time When We Fail To Protest”

“On the Row, You Never See the Stars”: Oregon Prisoner Wants to Die to Escape Death Row

UN Torture Investigator Calls on Nations to End Solitary Confinement

New Video: Charlie and Pauline Sullivan of C.U.R.E.

Tuesday Night in NYC: Forum on Solitary Confinement Features UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

Pennsylvania Prisoners Charged with Rioting After Protesting Conditions in Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “We Will Not Stop Until We Are Heard”

Voices from Solitary: Letter from Calipatria Prison Hunger Strikers

Federal Judge Rules 28 Years in Solitary Confinement Not “Extreme,” Dismisses Silverstein Case

California Department of Corrections Threatens Prison Hunger Strikers, Bans Lawyers

Voices from Solitary: Loneliness and Solitude

New Video: ACLU Launches “Stop Solitary” Campaign

Abu Ghraib, California: Report Shows Brutal Abuse of Prisoners in LA County Jails

Abu Ghraib on the Allegheny: Sexual and Physical Abuse at Pennsylvania Prison

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