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Today, some inmates in the Security Housing Units (SHUs) at Pelican Bay and Calipatria State Prisons in California will resume a hunger strike demanding reforms ranging from nutritious meals to reducing the use of long-term solitary confinement. In response to a three-week hunger strike this past summer, the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee held a hearing on […]

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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

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

As Prisoners End Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay, Their Cause Continues

Statements from Human Rights and Civil Rights Groups Support Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers

Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Upcoming Forum in New York on Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit