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• A North Carolina man convicted of gang-related murders, and sentenced to eight life sentences, is enduring a heightened form of isolation after being placed on “Special Administrative Measures,” or SAMs, restrictions on his conditions of incarceration that are usually reserved for accused terrorists. Jamell Cureton is one of only 48 people in Bureau of […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Utah

Seven Days in Solitary [5/07/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/19/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/25/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/16/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/13/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/9/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/2/2014]

The “Vicious Cycles” Created by Solitary Confinement

Utah Supermax Prisoners Report Being “Treated Like an Animal”

Brandon Green, Chronicler of Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “No Wonder There Are So Many Suicides”

Mentally Ill Utah Prisoner Sentenced to 20 Days in Solitary for Not Moving Cup Fast Enough

“I Write, Read, Cry, Sleep and Beg for Death”: Life In Utah’s Supermax

“Waiting For The World To Give Us A Reason To Live”: Solitary Confinement in Utah

Voices from Solitary: “A Sort of Solitary Psychosis”

A Day in the Life of Three Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: From the Vortex of Uinta One

Mentally Ill Inmate Starves to Death in Utah Jail

Voices from Solitary: “Home Sweet Home”

The Machinery of Death: Some Death Row Prisoners Can Still Opt for Firing Squad (or Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, or Noose)