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While taking some vacation time, we missed this powerful opinion piece by Helen Redmond, which appeared last week on Al Jazeera English. It describes in visceral detail the brutality of life in America’s supermax prisons. “People walked by and asked: ‘How are you doing?’ I answered: ‘How am I supposed to be doing? That’s the […]

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Solitary Confinement

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

Maine Reduces Use of Solitary Confinement

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison

As Prisoners End Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay, Their Cause Continues

Statements from Human Rights and Civil Rights Groups Support Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers

Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

Who Are the Hunger Strikers? How Prisoners Land in Pelican Bay’s SHU

Update: Pelican Bay Prisoners Reject State Proposal, Continue Hunger Strike

Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement Widely Used in California’s Juvenile Jails

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

Maine Cuts Supermax Population, Reforms Solitary Confinement Practices

Mentally Ill Inmate Starves to Death in Utah Jail

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

From BOP to CCA: Federal Prison Director Defects to Private Prison Company

Upcoming Forum in New York on Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Angola 3 Mark 39 Years in Solitary Confinement

Groups Urge Holder to Clean House at the Bureau of Prisons

DSK’s “Tiny” Cell Was Spacious by U.S. Solitary Confinement Standards

Now Available: Solitary Watch Print Edition

Colorado Lawmakers Present Weakened Version of Solitary Confinement Bill

Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

No Budget Cuts for Federal Prisons

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

Report from Panel Discussion on Prison Isolation Units

Congressional Briefing on Solitary Confinement to Take Place This Week

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