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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was reportedly “completely shocked and outraged” when he learned that his nephew, who suffers from epilepsy and was reportedly suicidal, was beaten and tased with a stun gun at a Louisiana hospital–apparently, for nothing more than some unruly behavior. “Outraged” we can understand: What happened to 24-year-old Derek Thomas does qualify as outrageous. […]

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Clarence Thomas “Outraged” by Treatment of His Nephew, But Condones the Same for Thousands of Others

Russian “Spy” Anna Chapman Chose Deportation Over Solitary Confinement

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

Louisiana Jail Locks Up Suicidal Prisoners in 3′ x 3′ Cages

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

Two Inmates Die in Agony As Prison Staff Stands By

Voices from Solitary: “What Prisoners Have…”

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

Court Rules Against Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

“Extradition to a Future of Total Isolation” Opposed by British Human Rights Lawyer

Lessons from Solitary

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

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

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

Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement: Our Generation of Americans “Has Countenanced Legalized Torture”

Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

Maine Legislature Votes to Study Solitary Confinement Practices–But Not to Change Them

AFSC Seeks Stories of Isolation and Torture in U.S. Prisons

Solitary Watch Watches National Geographic’s Experiment in Solitary Confinement

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

Ask Shamu: The U.S. Tortures Both Human and Animal Prisoners

Cruel Punishment Is Not Unusual for Clarence Thomas

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement

Maine’s Solitary Confinement Bill: Another Test of Our Tolerance for Torture

Johnny Cash: Solitary Man

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

On Reality TV, Solitary Confinement Is a Game