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Many times, on this site and elsewhere, we have referred to supermax prisons and solitary confinement units as “America’s domestic black sites“–places where terrible suffering, even torture, take place on a daily basis, out of site of the public, the press, and in some cases the government’s own meager oversight. At the dark heart of […]

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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

Federal Supermax Prison “in Violation of International Law”: Amnesty International

Advisers to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hold Briefing on Juvenile Solitary Confinement in New York

Ninety Years Old, Deaf, and in the Hole in a Florida Prison

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

Prayers for People in Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [6/22/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]

Voices from Solitary: Playing “The Con Game” at Pelican Bay

Seven Days in Solitary [5/25/14]

Holder Makes Obama Administration’s First Public Statement on Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [5/18/14]

New York Prisons Bar Media from Solitary Confinement Units

On the Way to Solitary, Women in Massachusetts Jail Get Strip Searched and Videotaped

Seven Days in Solitary [5/11/14]

Voices from Solitary: Analyzing Isolation, Part I

Seven Days in Solitary [4/20/14]

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

Voices from Solitary: “Mind Blowing Because I’m a Kid”

Immigrant Hunger Strikers Placed in Solitary Confinement at Federal Detention Center

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part V

Severely Disabled Man Sues New York State Prisons for Neglect, Abuse

Voices from Solitary: TV Death Row

Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [3/9/14]

Way Down in the Hole: Senate Hearing Challenges Solitary Confinement for Some, But Not All

ADX H-Unit on Hunger Strike, Prisoners Being Force-Fed

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

At Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons, Advocates Challenge “Reforms”

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/14]