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The U.S. government is currently contending with two federal lawsuits that challenge the torturous conditions at the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum (ADX) in Florence, Colorado. Both suits allege that the social isolation and sensory deprivation at ADX are so extreme that they drive prisoners to madness, self-mutilation, and suicide–yet the Bureau of Prisons offers them next to nothing […]

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Supermax Prisons

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

Solitary Policies in California Revised, As Prisoner Leaders Promote End to Racial Hostilities

New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard

Portrait of a Prison Whistleblower—and His Punishment

“Total Isolation”: Solitary Confinement in Oregon

Tamms Supermax Prison Closure Temporarily Halted

Voices from Solitary: A Man’s Strength Behind a Steel Door

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Solitary Confinement: New York’s Hidden Problem

Voices from Solitary: A Spark in the Dark

Judge Rules Against Colorado Supermax That Keeps Prisoners Indoors for Years

New Report Examines the Hardships of Life After Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: What Happens When the War Is Over

Political or Gang Activity? “New Afrikan” Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

One Year After Historic Hunger Strike, Isolated California Prisoners Report Little Change

Federal Prisons Chief Sends Memo Urging Prisoners Not to Kill Themselves

Pennsylvania Prisoner Commits Suicide in Isolation Unit

North Carolina Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike

AFSC Releases “Survivors Manual” By and For Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

Voices from Solitary: “A Sort of Solitary Psychosis”

Shutting Down a Supermax: An Interview With Alan Mills of the Uptown People’s Law Center

Voices from Solitary: Can’t You Hear Us?

“New York’s Black Sites”: New Article About Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “No Human Being Should Be Treated This Way”

Voices from Solitary: “Loneliness Is a Destroyer of Humanity”

Guantanamo “Is Not an Aberration”: How the War on Terror Came Home

Voices from Solitary: Washington Cell Extraction

One Year Anniversary of Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement