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Solitary Confinement

For seven years, Clair L. Beazer has been an inmate in the supermax Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City–which, as we’ve written before, qualifies as the solitary confinement capital of the Western World. In this essay, Beazer describes the effects of years of solitary confinement, pointing out that while it is particularly torturous for inmates already suffering from mental illness, this “interminable, […]

Voices from Solitary

Solitary Confinement

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

Solitary Confinement Comes to Capitol Hill

Voices from Solitary: “Destroyed Souls”

Congressional Briefing on Solitary Confinement to Take Place This Week

Isolation Units Within U.S. Prisons: CCR Panel Discussion in San Francisco

Supreme Court Rules Against Exonerated Death Row Inmate, for Prosecutors Who Withheld Evidence

Tolerating Torture

Prisoner Grievances: “The System for Going Up Against the System”

Voices from Solitary: Live from Lockdown

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

Voices from Solitary: Lane Nelson on Angola’s Death Row

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

Voices from Solitary: Imprisoned in the First Control Unit for Women

ACLU Takes a Strong Stand Against Solitary Confinement

Bill to Limit Solitary Confinement Introduced in Colorado Legislature

ACLU Urges UN to Take Action on Solitary Confinement in the United States

Former Detainee Describes Solitary Confinement at Guantanamo

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

More New Resources on Solitary Confinement

“Smart on Crime” Coalition Declares “Isolated Confinement Is Overused and Harmful”