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How influential were the three hunger strikes held by California prisoners in spurring the sweeping changes to solitary confinement policies that were announced yesterday? The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has repeatedly stated that they were already planning to reform long-term solitary confinement before the hunger strikes of 2011 and 2013. But internal documents obtained […]

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California Prison Hunger Strikes Sparked Solitary Reforms, Internal Documents Show

In Landmark Settlement, Solitary Confinement to Be Dramatically Reduced in California Prisons

Obama, in Criminal Justice Speech, Denounces the “Overuse of Solitary Confinement” in U.S. Prisons

Voices from Solitary: Fly in the Ointment

Irish Court Blocks Suspect’s Extradition to U.S., Citing Risk of Solitary Confinement

After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

Will Revamped Prison Regulations Reduce Solitary Confinement in California?

Voices from Solitary: Phantom Souls

Seven Days in Solitary [5/3/15]

American Outcasts: U.S. Prisons and Modern Day Banishment

At Ohio’s Supermax Prison, a Hunger Strike Ends But Extreme Isolation Remains

Seven Days in Solitary [4/19/2015]

Voices from Solitary: The Safari from Pelikkkan Bay

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy: “Solitary Confinement Literally Drives Men Mad”

UN Torture Investigator Barred from Visiting American Supermax Prisons

Audit of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons: An Inside Job Reaches Foregone Conclusions

In California Prisons, Hundreds Removed from Solitary Confinement—and Thousands Remain

Civil and Human Rights Groups to Eric Holder: No New Federal Supermax Prison at Thomson

New Federal Supermax Prison Will Double Capacity for Extreme Solitary Confinement

For Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, A Year of Incremental Reform

UN Committee on Torture Says U.S. Must Reform Its Use of Solitary Confinement

Fates Worse Than Death?

Working from the Inside Out

UN Committee on Torture Questions U.S. Record on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Is “Torture” Too Strong of a Word?

Voices from Solitary: The Heaviness of Blood

Pope Francis Denounces Solitary Confinement, Calls for Prison Conditions That “Respect Human Dignity”

Voices from Solitary: Survivors Speak