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Guest Post by Terry A. Kupers, M.D., M.S.P. Editors’ note: Dr. Terry Kupers is one of the world’s leading experts on the psychological effects of solitary confinement. A psychiatrist with a background in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, forensics, and social and community psychiatry, he teaches at the Wright Institute, a graduate school of psychology in Berkeley, California, while also […]

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Supermax Prisons

How to Create Madness in Prison

Voices from Solitary: “Geezer in the Hole”

Psychiatrists on Solitary Confinement

Colorado State Penitentiary II Opens With 300 New Solitary Confinement Cells

Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical Ethics”

Voices from Solitary: Gang “Validation” and Permanent Isolation in California Prisons

Federal Judge: Extended Solitary Confinement Causes “Lasting Psychological Damage and Emotional Harm”

Voices from Solitary: Supermaxed Out in Colorado

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

A Supermax Prisoner’s Film from Hell

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

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

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

Voices from Solitary: Ray Luc Levasseur on Life in ADX

Prisoner Sent to Solitary Based on Reading Materials

No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confinement

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

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Oregon Converts Supermax Unit to Treat Prisoners With Mental Illness

Super-Secretive Supermax Prisons: Last Day to Register Opposition

Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”

Live from Death Row: 3,600 Americans Waiting Alone to Die

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

Cash-Strapped Colorado Comes Up With Funds for New Supermax

Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

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

Solitary Watch Watches National Geographic’s Experiment in Solitary Confinement

Storming “Little Gitmo”: Lawsuit Challenges Restricted Units in Federal Prisons