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Solitary Confinement

While it never uses the term “solitary confinement,” the front-page story in yesterday’s New York Times titled “Beyond Guantánamo, a Web of Prisons for Terrorism Inmates” is in effect a survey of long-term solitary at the federal level. The article describes “an archipelago of federal prisons that stretches across the country, hidden away on back […]

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Solitary Confinement

Beyond Guantánamo, There’s Long-Term Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons

New Study: Solitary Confinement Overused in Colorado

“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

Pennsylvania Prisoners Charged with Rioting After Protesting Conditions in Solitary

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

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

California Department of Corrections Threatens Prison Hunger Strikers, Bans Lawyers

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

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement and the Law

Oregon Converts Supermax Unit to Treat Prisoners With Mental Illness

Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

The Torture of Troy Davis

California SHU Inmates to Resume Hunger Strike September 26th

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pelican Bay Prisoners Plan to Resume Hunger Strike

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

“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