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When we visited Colorado recently, prisoner advocates were awaiting the results of a year-long, federally funded study on how solitary confinement affects mental health. The study was conducted in the Colorado State Penitentiary, a supermax prison where all 700+ inmates live in long-term isolation. CSP, which is located outside prison-laden Cañon City, was the subject of a recent National Geographic documentary […]

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Solitary Confinement

Controversial Colorado Study Shows Prisoners “Improve” in Solitary Confinement

Our Homegrown American Gitmos

No Charges in Maine Prison Death

Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape Takes Her Case to the Supreme Court

Solitary Watch to Be Featured at Torture Awareness Campaign

Fahad Hashmi Joins 1,400 Others in the Solitary Confinement Capital of the World

Children Routinely Held in Pre-Trial Solitary Confinement in Texas

Criminalizing Mental Illness

Suicide and Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “Home Sweet Home”

Angola Prison May Close Lockdown Unit–But Vows to Keep Inmates in Isolation

Teen Held in Solitary in Tennessee Jail Because He Can’t Make Bail

All-American Prison Torture

Leaving Cañon City

Voices from Solitary: Letters from the Hole

John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

Obama and Bureau of Prisons Lowball Supermax Costs

Voices from Solitary: A Little Taste of “Freedom”

Solitary Watch Milestones

How to Create Madness in Prison

Lockdown Fuels “Cycle of Violence” at Federal Prison

Another Prisoner With Mental Illness Dies in Isolation

Cash-Strapped California to Spend $500 Million for New “Condemned Inmate Complex” (Death Row)

Voices from Solitary: “Geezer in the Hole”

Psychiatrists on Solitary Confinement

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Voices from Solitary: Katfish on Life in “The Bucket”

Voices from Solitary: Ara Oshagan Photographs California Juvies

Colorado State Penitentiary II Opens With 300 New Solitary Confinement Cells