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A letter sent to Attorney General Eric Holder today by several civil rights groups expresses “urgent concern about Syed Fahad Hashmi’s conditions of confinement.” The letter, from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Council on American-Islamic Relations of New York (CAIR-NY), Educators for Civil Liberties, and the Muslim Justice Initiative, reads in part: For nearly three years before his case […]

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

Our Homegrown American Gitmos

Solitary Watch to Be Featured at Torture Awareness Campaign

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