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“I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one’s mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.” –Nelson Mandela, from his 1994 autobiography The Long Walk to Freedom Nelson […]

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Solitary Confinement

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

Santa Was in Solitary