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Tomorrow at 6 pm, activists with the No Separate Justice campaign will gather at Lower Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center to protest what they believe are torture and other travesties taking place in the heart of the federal justice system. MCC, a federal jail, is located a stone’s throw from the U.S. Courthouse for the Southern District of […]

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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

New York Lawmakers Introduce Bill to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [2/2/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/26/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/13]

New Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil

Mentally Ill in South Carolina’s Prisons Suffer Decades of Abuse and Neglect

War [on Crime] Is Over — If You Want It

Seven Days in Solitary [12/15/13]

Women in Solitary Confinement: Sent to Solitary for Reporting Sexual Assault

Voices from Solitary: “Finally Out and Among the Living”

“This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse”: An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

Seven Days in Solitary [11/24/13]

Federal Bureau of Prisons Details Plans for Limited “Audit” of Solitary Confinement Practices

Voices from Solitary: Life in H-Unit, ADX Federal Supermax

In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

Seven Days in Solitary [11/10/13]

New Report Criticizes Use of Solitary Confinement in New Mexico Prisons and Jails

Reports Condemn Solitary Confinement in New York City’s Jails, As Officials Weigh Its Future

Seven Days in Solitary [11/3/13]

One Month After Historic Hunger Strike, California Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [10/13/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/6/13]

Videos Show Abuse of Mentally Ill in California Prisons

After 41 Years in Solitary, a Dying Herman Wallace Has His Conviction Overturned—-and Is Freed

Federal Appeals Court Considers Tommy Silverstein’s 30 Years in Extreme Solitary Confinement

New Directive May Curtail Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention

Seven Days in Solitary [9/8/13]

California Prison Hunger Strike Ends After 60 Days