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CHILDREN IN LOCKDOWN One of this year’s Molly Prizes–named for the late journalist Molly Ivins, and sponsored by the Texas Observer–has gone to a powerful story about teenagers held in solitary confinement in adult jails in Texas, before they have been tried or convicted of any crime. Chris Vogel’s story “For Their Own Good” appeared […]

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Children Routinely Held in Pre-Trial Solitary Confinement in Texas

Criminalizing Mental Illness

Suicide and Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “Home Sweet Home”

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

How to Create Madness in Prison

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

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical Ethics”

“Epidemic” of Suicides in Massachusetts Prisons

Private Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots

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

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

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

Voices from Solitary: Life in a Pennsylvania Prison’s “Restricted Housing Unit”

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Oregon Converts Supermax Unit to Treat Prisoners With Mental Illness

Richard Ross Photographs Children in Solitary Confinement

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

The Machinery of Death: Some Death Row Prisoners Can Still Opt for Firing Squad (or Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, or Noose)

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

The Lost Boys of Westchester County’s SHU

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

Dead Man Killing Himself

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

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

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

Kids Languish in Solitary While Awaiting Trial in Colorado