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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday used long-term solitary confinement as evidence that the “idea of total incarceration just isn’t working.” Solitary “literally drives men mad,” Kennedy said, noting that more humane alternatives are employed elsewhere in the world. Kennedy’s comments were made during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the 2016 Budget Request for […]

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

UN’s “Mandela Rules” to Set New International Limits on Solitary Confinement

UN Human Rights Experts (Again) Push for Access to U.S. Prisons, Call for Solitary Reform

The Solitary Men of Texas Death Row

“I Write, Read, Cry, Sleep and Beg for Death”: Life In Utah’s Supermax

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

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

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 “Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement”

Abuse and Cover-Up in California Prisons’ “Behavior Management Units”

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

Illinois Prisoner Says Years of Solitary Confinement Caused Mental Illness, Self-Mutilation

The Ten Worst Prisons in America

Doing “Bing Time”: Memories of a Mental Health Worker in Rikers Island’s Solitary Confinement Unit

The Hidden History of Solitary Confinement in New Jersey’s Control Units

Charles Dickens on Solitary Confinement: “Immense Torture and Agony”

Extradited to a Future of Torture in a U.S. Supermax Prison

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

Torture on Death Row: Court Rules Against Automatic Use of Solitary Confinement for the Condemned

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

Federal Appeals Court Considers Tommy Silverstein’s 30 Years in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Angola 3’s Herman Wallace, Gravely Ill, Still Held in Isolation

After 41 Years in Solitary, a Dying Herman Wallace Has His Conviction Overturned—-and Is Freed

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

Video Shows Maine Prisoner with Mental Illness Brutally Subdued by Guards

N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown

Children in Lockdown: Solitary Confinement of Teens in Adult Prisons

Scientists Discover How Social Isolation Damages Young Brains

America’s “Most Isolated Man” Sues the Bureau of Prisons