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Photo: Laura Sullivan, NPR It’s been two weeks since a group of inmates in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit stopped eating. Their hunger strike was launched to protest conditions in solitary confinement in California’s oldest and largest supermax, where they spend at least 22 1/2 hours a day locked down in their cells, […]

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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

Angola 3 Mark 39 Years in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: A Mother’s Story

America’s Most Isolated Federal Prisoner Describes 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Now Available: Solitary Watch Print Edition

Voices from Solitary: Colorado Department of Corrections in Need of Correction

Colorado Lawmakers Present Weakened Version of Solitary Confinement Bill

Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Report from Panel Discussion on Prison Isolation Units

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

No Budget Cuts for Federal Prisons