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Guest Post by Dan Moshenberg Editors’ note: Today’s guest post is by Dan Moshenberg, who directs the Women’s Studies Program at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is co-convener of the Women In and Beyond the Global Project, and coordinator of www.womeninandbeyond.org. His teaching and research focus in part on women in the global prison […]

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Solitary Confinement

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

AFSC Seeks Stories of Isolation and Torture in U.S. Prisons

Solitary Watch Watches National Geographic’s Experiment in Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement: Coming Live to a Computer Near You

Storming “Little Gitmo”: Lawsuit Challenges Restricted Units in Federal Prisons

Punishment for Possessing One Joint = Jail, Solitary Confinement, and Deportation

The Lost Boys of Westchester County’s SHU

Federal Lawsuit Challenges 27 Years of Supermax Confinement

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

A Suspicious (and Lonely) Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Ask Shamu: The U.S. Tortures Both Human and Animal Prisoners

Cruel Punishment Is Not Unusual for Clarence Thomas

Teen Kills Himself After Being Put in Solitary for…Trying to Kill Himself

Dead Man Killing Himself

House Republicans Explain Why They Oppose Ban on Child Abuse in Schools

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement

For Jamie Scott, an $11 Robbery in Mississippi May Carry a Death Sentence

Maine’s Solitary Confinement Bill: Another Test of Our Tolerance for Torture

Johnny Cash: Solitary Man

Charles Dickens on Solitary Confinement: “Immense Torture and Agony”

Voices from Solitary: Charles P. Norman on “The Insanity of Solitary Confinement”

On Reality TV, Solitary Confinement Is a Game

No Obama Budget Freeze for Prisons

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

Incarceration Nation