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Guest Post by Margo Schlanger The following piece originally appeared in September 2013 in Tablet, and is republished here by permission of the author. Margo Schlanger is a professor of law at the University of Michigan and the former Department of Homeland Security Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. She helped to draft the American […]

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Supermax Prisons

In the Story of Jonah, an Urgent Lesson About the Dangers of Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part VII

American Experts Urge British Not to Believe What They Hear About US Prison Conditions

News from the Hole: The Words of People in Solitary Confinement in America’s Prisons

Transgender Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Sexual Assault

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/14]

Federal Supermax Prison “in Violation of International Law”: Amnesty International

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

New Solitary Confinement Policies in California Bring Small Changes and Raise Big Questions

Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]

Voices from Solitary: Playing “The Con Game” at Pelican Bay

The Odyssey to Pelican Bay: Families Journey to California’s Notorious Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [5/25/14]

Holder Makes Obama Administration’s First Public Statement on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “That Which Does Not Kill Us…”

Seven Days in Solitary [5/11/14]

“Disappearing” the Disadvantaged Into Prison, and Into Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Head Cases

Voices from Solitary: Analyzing Isolation, Part I

Voices from Solitary: Unnatural Disaster

Voices from Solitary: TV Death Row

Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [3/9/14]

Way Down in the Hole: Senate Hearing Challenges Solitary Confinement for Some, But Not All

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part III

ADX H-Unit on Hunger Strike, Prisoners Being Force-Fed

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

At Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons, Advocates Challenge “Reforms”

Seven Months After Historic Prison Hunger Strike, Opponents of Solitary in California Gauge the Pace of Change