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Yesterday would have been Johnny Cash’s 78th birthday. Prison Law Blog dug out this NPR story from 2005 on Cash’s famous visit to Folsom Prison in 1968, which includes a recording of him singing “Folsom Prison Blues” for an audience of inmates. Listen to it here. Since that recording was made, the U.S. prison population has increased seven-fold, […]

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Johnny Cash: Solitary Man

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

On Reality TV, Solitary Confinement Is a Game

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

Solitary Confinement Is Not Healthy for Elephants (or Humans)

Children in Lockdown: Solitary Confinement of Teens in Adult Prisons

No End to U.S. Torture

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

The Maine Redemption: Bill Seeks to Restrict Use of Solitary in State’s Prisons

The Mark of Cain: God and Man at Angola Prison

A Louisiana Inmate’s Death Wish

Amy Goodman and Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement

Southern Injustice: 37 Years in Solitary

The Hashmi Case Brings Guantanamo Home

Freed British Hostage Evokes Trauma of Solitary Confinement

ACLU Says Teen Tortured at Montana Prison