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Juan E. Mendez is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Under a mandate from the General Assembly’s Human Rights Council, Mendez is charged with investigating and reporting on the use of torture throughout the 193 UN member states, as well as issuing recommendations and urgent appeals. In […]

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Torture

New Video: UN Torture Expert Juan Mendez on Solitary Confinement

“Suicide Checks” Lead to Extreme Sleep Deprivation at Pelican Bay Prison

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Pelican Bay Prisoners File Lawsuit Against Long-Term Isolation

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

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

Leading Mental Health Experts Urge Illinois Legislators to Close Tamms Supermax

40 Years in Solitary: New BBC Program on the Angola 3 Case

European Human Rights Court Rules Terror Suspects Can Be Extradited to U.S. Supermax

Connecticut Votes to Replace the Death Penalty with Life in Solitary Confinement

New Film Explores “the Injustice of Solitary Confinement and the Transformative Power of Art”

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

Montana Settlement Limits Solitary Confinement for Juveniles, Prisoners with Mental Illness

Families of California Prisoners Respond to Controversial Reforms of Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Children in Solitary

Suicides in Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Congress Unlocks America’s Hidden Shame of Solitary Confinement

The “Torture of Isolation” Gains Media Attention

Guantanamo “Is Not an Aberration”: How the War on Terror Came Home

“New York’s Black Sites”: New Article About Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Shutting Down a Supermax: An Interview With Alan Mills of the Uptown People’s Law Center

Defense Describes Bradley Manning’s “Unlawful Pretrial Punishment” in Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement: New York’s Hidden Problem

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hear Testimony on the Torture of Solitary Confinement

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

Former Hostage in Iran Reports on Solitary Confinement in California