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Solitary Watch is a participating organization in Amnesty International’s Torture Awareness Campaign, sponsored by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. The campaign has been putting on a month-long series of programs–you can click on the link provided here to get the full listing. James Ridgeway will be part of a panel this Thursday on […]

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Solitary Watch to Be Featured at Torture Awareness Campaign

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

Solitary Confinement for Transgender Inmate in Virginia

ACLU Gets One Angola Prisoner Released from Solitary

Supreme Court Decision Limits Juvenile Life Without Parole (Within Limits)

Children Routinely Held in Pre-Trial Solitary Confinement in Texas

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

Alaska Teen Spends 17-Months in Pre-Trial Solitary Confinement

LGBT Kids in Prison Face Rape, Beatings, and Isolation

Montana Teen Who Faced Torture in Prison Asks Judge to Keep Him Out of Solitary

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

On Reality TV, Solitary Confinement Is a Game

Obama’s First Military Tribunal: Child Soldier Tortured at Bagram and Gitmo

Criminalizing Mental Illness

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

Psychiatrists on Solitary Confinement

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

Another Prisoner With Mental Illness Dies in Isolation

Lockdown Fuels “Cycle of Violence” at Federal Prison

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

All-American Prison Torture

Obama and Bureau of Prisons Lowball Supermax Costs

Judge Rules Procedures at Tamms Supermax Violate Constitution

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

Super-Secretive Supermax Prisons: Last Day to Register Opposition

Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

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

Solitary Watch Milestones

“I Spent 29 Years in Solitary Confinement”