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The following is a response by California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement (CFASC), an organization dedicated to raising awareness of the use of solitary confinement in California prisons, to the recent revision of gang validation policies. Gang validation is the primary means by which the over three thousand inmates in Security Housing Units (SHU) are […]

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Families of California Prisoners Respond to Controversial Reforms of Solitary Confinement

Pelican Bay SHU Prisoners Respond to California’s Proposed Prisons Reforms

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

California Announces Reform of Controversial Policies That Led to Prison Hunger Strike

Family of California Prisoner Who Died on Hunger Strike Speaks Out

“Occupy” Prison Protests in California Oppose Use of Solitary Confinement

Conflicting Reports on Hunger Strike at California’s Corcoran State Prison

Update: Prisoner Dies During Hunger Strike at California’s Corcoran State Prison

How Many Prisoners Are in Solitary Confinement in the United States?

New Fact Sheet: The High Cost of Solitary Confinement

The Guantánamos Next Door

California Considers New Rules for Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

California Bill Would Increase Media Access to Prisoners

New Video: National Religious Campaign Against Torture Takes a Stand on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Christmas in the Hole, 1968

Voices from Solitary: Message from the Father of a California Prison Hunger Striker

Voices from Solitary: “There Must Never Be A Time When We Fail To Protest”

Voices from Solitary: “We Will Not Stop Until We Are Heard”

Voices from Solitary: Letter from Calipatria Prison Hunger Strikers

California Department of Corrections Threatens Prison Hunger Strikers, Bans Lawyers

Voices from Solitary: Loneliness and Solitude

Abu Ghraib, California: Report Shows Brutal Abuse of Prisoners in LA County Jails

Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: The “Life Negating Emptiness” of the Pelican Bay SHU

The Truth About Solitary Confinement in California

California Teachers Union Letter of Support for Educational Programming in Solitary Confinement

“I Never Will Abandon This Hope”: Testimony of a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker on Solitary Confinement

“Where Punishment Becomes Torture”: Testimony of Dorsey Nunn on Solitary Confinement

“A Form of Torture”: Testimony of Laura Magnani on Solitary Confinement