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Alan Mills is the Legal Director of the Uptown People’s Law Center in Chicago, Illinois. The Center has been involved in ongoing litigation on behalf of Illinois prisoners challenging the procedures used to send inmates to Tamms, the state’s supermax facility. Shortly after Illinois Governor announced plans to close Tamms, he spoke with Solitary Watch about […]

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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

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

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

The “Torture of Isolation” Gains Media Attention

Congress Unlocks America’s Hidden Shame of Solitary Confinement

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: From the Vortex of Uinta One

Voices from Solitary: “No Longer a Part of the World”

Voices from Solitary: “The SHU Is California’s Equivalent of Waterboarding”

Voices from Solitary: Behind Enemy Lines

Suicides in Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons

Pelican Bay Prisoners File Lawsuit Against Long-Term Isolation

Children in Solitary

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Families of California Prisoners Respond to Controversial Reforms of Solitary Confinement

Montana Settlement Limits Solitary Confinement for Juveniles, Prisoners with Mental Illness

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

New Film Explores “the Injustice of Solitary Confinement and the Transformative Power of Art”

Connecticut Votes to Replace the Death Penalty with Life in Solitary Confinement

European Human Rights Court Rules Terror Suspects Can Be Extradited to U.S. Supermax

40 Years in Solitary: New BBC Program on the Angola 3 Case

Leading Mental Health Experts Urge Illinois Legislators to Close Tamms Supermax

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

Lawsuit Charges Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment

UN Human Rights Council Considers Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons

National and International Events Challenging Use of Solitary Confinement

Illinois Governor Proposes Closing Controversial Tamms Supermax Prison