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New this week from Solitary Watch: • In an essay in our Voices from Solitary series, Cesar Villa offers a searing account of living in prolonged solitary confinement in a Security Housing Unit, or SHU, at California’s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison. “We’re only here to die. The prison administration is paid to put us down. […]

Seven Days in Solitary

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Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/22]

The Word: Torture Before Trial

Seven Days in Solitary [8/24/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/29/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/22/20]

A Watershed Year in the Movement to Stop Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [11/11/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/28/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/13/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/19/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/13/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/25/18]

Looking Back on Six Years of Leadership Against Solitary Confinement With UN Torture Expert Juan Méndez

UN Report Compares Solitary Confinement Practices in the U.S. and Around the World

Seven Days in Solitary [7/24/2016]

Can International Laws and Standards Help Curb Solitary Confinement in the United States?

UN Human Rights Experts (Again) Push for Access to U.S. Prisons, Call for Solitary Reform

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

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

U.S. Government Tells UN: “No Systematic Use of Solitary Confinement in the United States”

UN Investigator Says Long-Term Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons Is Torture

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

Seven Days in Solitary [6/23/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [4.12.13]

At U.N. Prisoners’ Rights Meeting, U.S. Resists Limits on Solitary Confinement

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

UN Human Rights Council Considers Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons