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U.S. Use of Solitary Defies International Treaty, UN Finds…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Lawsuit Exposes “Unconstitutional, Torturous” Conditions in a Pennsylvania Prison Unit… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Post-Traumatic Prison Disorder Could Impact Millions…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Leader Held in Solitary for Six More Years…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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]