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An article by Joseph Boven in the Colorado Independent exposes the plight of juveniles who have been charged as adults, and often spend months in solitary confinement as they await their trials. As we’ve written before, kids in adult prisons are highly likely to end up in solitary, either because they are considered disciplinary problems or because they have […]

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Kids Languish in Solitary While Awaiting Trial in Colorado

Georgia’s Response to Death Row Suicides: Restrict Family Visits

Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners

Women Prisoners in Virginia Segregated for Having Mental Illness or “Looking Butch”

Rastafarians Spend a Decade in Solitary for Refusing Haircuts

Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk from a Cell to Freedom

Solitary Confinement Is Not Healthy for Elephants (or Humans)

Children in Lockdown: Solitary Confinement of Teens in Adult Prisons

Children Sentenced to Die in Prison

ACLU Gets One Angola Prisoner Released from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Coyote Calling

Canada Questions Solitary Confinement After Teenager’s Death

No End to U.S. Torture

America’s “Most Isolated Man” Sues the Bureau of Prisons

Inmate Allegedly Placed in Solitary for Refusing to Bribe Guards

California Lawsuit Charges Race-Based Lockdown

Solitary Deaths in Immigrant Detention Centers

The Maine Redemption: Bill Seeks to Restrict Use of Solitary in State’s Prisons

The Mark of Cain: God and Man at Angola Prison

A Louisiana Inmate’s Death Wish

Amy Goodman and Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement

Southern Injustice: 37 Years in Solitary

Solitary Confinement for Transgender Inmate in Virginia

The Hashmi Case Brings Guantanamo Home

A Lonely–and Preventable–Death in a Vermont Prison

Rising Criticism of Tamms Illinois Supermax

Freed British Hostage Evokes Trauma of Solitary Confinement

NY Prison System Opens Unit for Mentally Ill

ACLU Says Teen Tortured at Montana Prison