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The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMRs) are being given several long-awaited revisions this year. Among them is a provision that solitary confinement “shall be used only in exceptional cases as a last resort for as short a time as possible and subject to independent review.” The rules also prohibit […]

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UN’s “Mandela Rules” to Set New International Limits on Solitary Confinement

Irish Court Blocks Suspect’s Extradition to U.S., Citing Risk of Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Phantom Souls

Will Lawsuits and Exposés Lead to Reform of Florida’s Brutal Prisons?

New Report Documents Brutal Treatment of People with Mental Illness in U.S. Prisons and Jails

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

Officials, Advocates Call for Restrictions on Solitary Confinement in Wisconsin

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy: “Solitary Confinement Literally Drives Men Mad”

UN Torture Investigator Barred from Visiting American Supermax Prisons

Audit of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons: An Inside Job Reaches Foregone Conclusions

Voices from Solitary: “I Am Somebody’s Daughter”

Voices from Solitary: On Hunger Strike Against Brutal Treatment in Florida Prisons

In California Prisons, Hundreds Removed from Solitary Confinement—and Thousands Remain

New Federal Supermax Prison Will Double Capacity for Extreme Solitary Confinement

For Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, A Year of Incremental Reform

Voices from Solitary: Cycle of Despair

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

Under Fire for Negligence, North Carolina Prisons Chief Seeks New Mental Health Funding

Arizona Opens New $50M Supermax Prison; Report Denounces State’s Use of Solitary

UN Committee on Torture Says U.S. Must Reform Its Use of Solitary Confinement

Fates Worse Than Death?

Working from the Inside Out

After 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Will the Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Be a Free Man?

UN Committee on Torture Questions U.S. Record on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Is “Torture” Too Strong of a Word?

Voices from Solitary: The Heaviness of Blood

Pope Francis Denounces Solitary Confinement, Calls for Prison Conditions That “Respect Human Dignity”

Voices from Solitary: Survivors Speak

Voices from Solitary: Freedom Shares My Cell