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The New York City Bar Association’s Committee on International Human Rights has turned its sights on the American prison system, and produced a concise, well-documented, and important report on solitary confinement in the United States. As the report’s authors write: The policy of supermax confinement, on the scale which it is currently being implemented in the […]

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NYC Bar Association Issues Report on “The Brutality of Supermax Confinement”

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement and the Law

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

“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

“The Destruction of the Human Spirit”: Testimony of Rev. William McGarvey on Solitary Confinement

Illinois Prisoner Says Years of Solitary Confinement Caused Mental Illness, Self-Mutilation

Historic California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

As Prisoners End Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay, Their Cause Continues

Statements from Human Rights and Civil Rights Groups Support Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers

Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

Who Are the Hunger Strikers? How Prisoners Land in Pelican Bay’s SHU

Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Angola 3 Mark 39 Years in Solitary Confinement

Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Report from Panel Discussion on Prison Isolation Units

Congressional Briefing on Solitary Confinement to Take Place This Week