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The federal government confirmed on Thursday that it plans to buy Thomson Correction Center. Obama has long envisioned the state prison in rural Illinois as a new home for the detainees from the so-called war on terror who are currently housed at Guantanamo Bay. But it is quite possible that no Gitmo residents will ever live there. According to Lynn Sweet’s […]

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

Montana Teen Who Faced Torture in Prison Asks Judge to Keep Him Out of Solitary

On Reality TV, Solitary Confinement Is a Game

Obama’s First Military Tribunal: Child Soldier Tortured at Bagram and Gitmo

Psychiatrists on Solitary Confinement

All-American Prison Torture

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

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

Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical Ethics”

Ridgeway on America’s Solitary Confinement Nightmare

Pennsylvania Legislators Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Another Suspicious Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Prison Heat: Hunger Strike Highlights Summer’s Deadly Toll on U.S. Inmates

“Torture Memo” Author Says He Authorized Waterboarding, But Not “Extended Solitary Confinement”

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

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

Two Inmates Die in Agony As Prison Staff Stands By

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cruel Punishment Is Not Unusual for Clarence Thomas

Johnny Cash: Solitary Man

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

Amy Goodman and Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement

The Mark of Cain: God and Man at Angola Prison