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The inmate at Massachusetts’ Norfolk Prison who blew the whistle on a sex-for-information ring operated by guards (as reported here last week) has been placed in the hole. Timothy Muise, an activist with the Lifers Group inside the prison, said in a letter that he had been visited by Assistant Deputy Commissioner Paul DiPaolo, the state official in […]

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Massachusetts Prisoner Who Exposed Sex-for-Snitching Ring Sent to Solitary

Sex-for-Snitching Ring Reported at Massachusetts Prison

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