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The following letter was sent by a hunger striker at California Correctional Institution (CCI) Tehachapi, one of three state prison containing an all-solitary Security Housing Unit (SHU). The letter was written by an SHU inmate to his girlfriend, who forwarded it to Solitary Watch for publication. It is dated July 21, after the writer had been refusing […]

Voices from Solitary

Torture

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

Isolation Units Within U.S. Prisons: CCR Panel Discussion in San Francisco

Tolerating Torture

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

Former Detainee Describes Solitary Confinement at Guantanamo

New Resources on Solitary Confinement

On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Selective Outrage

The Brutality of Supermax Confinement

The Solitary Men of Texas Death Row

Our Homegrown American Gitmos

Solitary Watch to Be Featured at Torture Awareness Campaign

Fahad Hashmi Joins 1,400 Others in the Solitary Confinement Capital of the World

All-American Prison Torture

How to Create Madness in Prison

Psychiatrists on Solitary Confinement

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells