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Down Time for Solitary Watch

“Outsourcing Punishment” and the Privatization of Justice

Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical Ethics”

Ridgeway on America’s Solitary Confinement Nightmare

Pennsylvania Legislators Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Another Suspicious Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

“Never in the Civilised World Have So Many Been Locked Up for So Little”

Private Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots

Prison Heat: Hunger Strike Highlights Summer’s Deadly Toll on U.S. Inmates

“Torture Memo” Author Says He Authorized Waterboarding, But Not “Extended Solitary Confinement”

A Supermax Prisoner’s Film from Hell

Clarence Thomas “Outraged” by Treatment of His Nephew, But Condones the Same for Thousands of Others

Russian “Spy” Anna Chapman Chose Deportation Over Solitary Confinement

Celebrities in Solitary: Lindsay Lohan Goes to Lockdown

Louisiana Jail Locks Up Suicidal Prisoners in 3′ x 3′ Cages

Two for One: Guantanamo Won’t Close, But Illinois Supermax Will Open

Court Rules Against Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

Our Father Who Art in Prison

Prisoner Sent to Solitary Based on Reading Materials

“Extradition to a Future of Total Isolation” Opposed by British Human Rights Lawyer

No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confinement

Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude

Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement: Our Generation of Americans “Has Countenanced Legalized Torture”

Cash-Strapped Colorado Comes Up With Funds for New Supermax

Maine Legislature Votes to Study Solitary Confinement Practices–But Not to Change Them

Solitary Confinement: Coming Live to a Computer Near You

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

The Lost Boys of Westchester County’s SHU