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LA County Jail The U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay turns 10 today, and activists are marking the anniversary with protests and petitions, reports and retrospectives. A decade after its founding, Guantánamo remains a dark stain on the national soul. Even today, while the worst instances of torture may have ceased under the Obama Administration, prisoners are […]

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The Guantánamos Next Door

New Video: National Religious Campaign Against Torture Takes a Stand on Solitary Confinement

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

New Video: UN Torture Expert Juan Mendez on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Hank Skinner’s Dispatches from Texas Death Row

Freed from an Iranian Prison, Sarah Shourd Speaks Out for U.S. Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

“On the Row, You Never See the Stars”: Oregon Prisoner Wants to Die to Escape Death Row

UN Torture Investigator Calls on Nations to End Solitary Confinement

Tuesday Night in NYC: Forum on Solitary Confinement Features UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

Voices from Solitary: Letter from Calipatria Prison Hunger Strikers

Federal Judge Rules 28 Years in Solitary Confinement Not “Extreme,” Dismisses Silverstein Case

Abu Ghraib, California: Report Shows Brutal Abuse of Prisoners in LA County Jails

Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: The “Life Negating Emptiness” of the Pelican Bay SHU

The Torture of Troy Davis

NYC Bar Association Issues Report on “The Brutality of Supermax Confinement”

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement and the Law

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

“I Never Will Abandon This Hope”: Testimony of a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker on Solitary Confinement

“Where Punishment Becomes Torture”: Testimony of Dorsey Nunn on Solitary Confinement

“A Form of Torture”: Testimony of Laura Magnani on Solitary Confinement

Voices From Solitary: Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Was “the Only Way to Get the Word Out” About Prison Abuses

“The Destruction of the Human Spirit”: Testimony of Rev. William McGarvey on Solitary Confinement

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

“Pawns in a Failed Experiment”: Testimony of Dr. Craig Haney on Solitary Confinement

New from Solitary Watch: Original Videos on Solitary Confinement

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay