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A court ruling out of South Carolina this week deserves the attention of anyone concerned with the use of solitary confinement and other brutal conditions and practices on the hundreds of thousands of people with mental illness who are held in our nation’s prisons. The best reporting on the ruling comes from The Atlantic’s Andrew […]

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Mentally Ill in South Carolina’s Prisons Suffer Decades of Abuse and Neglect

Seven Days in Solitary [1/5/14]

Voices from Solitary: “This Massive Mind-Fuck Machine”

Solitary Confinement: Too Controversial for Costco

Activists Urge U.S. Government to Grant UN Torture Expert Access to New York’s Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “Finally Out and Among the Living”

“This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse”: An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

Voices from Solitary: “A Prison Where the Building Becomes the Shackles”

Seven Days in Solitary [11/24/13]

Voices from Solitary: Life in H-Unit, ADX Federal Supermax

Voices from Solitary: Welcome to the SHU

In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

Seven Days in Solitary [11/10/13]

New Report Criticizes Use of Solitary Confinement in New Mexico Prisons and Jails

Seven Days in Solitary [11/3/13]

Voices from Solitary: Solitary Confinement’s Invisible Scars

Seven Days in Solitary [10/27/13]

One Month After Historic Hunger Strike, California Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [10/6/13]

After 41 Years in Solitary, a Dying Herman Wallace Has His Conviction Overturned—-and Is Freed

Federal Appeals Court Considers Tommy Silverstein’s 30 Years in Extreme Solitary Confinement

A Month in Solitary [8/31/13]

UN: Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Can Be Torture, Force-Feeding Unacceptable

California Prison Hunger Strikers to Be Force-Fed

The Use of Isolation in U.S. Prisons: A Human Rights Issue

Suicide of California Hunger Strike Participant Draws National Attention to a Broken System

Why Holder’s Pledge That Snowden “Will Not Be Tortured” Is a Lie

Seven Days in Solitary [7/28/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/21/13]