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Some of Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable citizens—people facing criminal charges who are not competent to stand trial because of mental disabilities—have begun a class action lawsuit over the state’s provision of mental health treatment. Last month, eleven plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Pennsylvania, sued the heads of a state agency and of the two state […]

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Judged Incompetent to Stand Trial, People with Mental Illness Still Languish in Pennsylvania Jails

In Landmark Settlement, Solitary Confinement to Be Dramatically Reduced in California Prisons

Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement for Reading Materials, Other Minor Infractions

After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

Law Aimed at Silencing People Convicted of Crimes Is Declared Unconstitutional

At Ohio’s Supermax Prison, a Hunger Strike Ends But Extreme Isolation Remains

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

Solitary Not Yet Over at Rikers, But Advocates Keep Fighting

After 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Will the Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Be a Free Man?

Voices from Solitary: Testimony of a Jailhouse Lawyer

Voices from Solitary, Analyzing Isolation, Part II

Torture on Death Row: Court Rules Against Automatic Use of Solitary Confinement for the Condemned

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

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

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

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

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

Voices from Solitary: Hunger Strike in Menard Prison

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

Seven Days in Solitary [1/12/13]

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

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

Seven Days in Solitary [11/17/13]

Voices from Solitary: American Supermax

Members of Congress Call for Investigation of Louisiana’s Use of Solitary Confinement, Treatment of Angola 3

The Ten Worst Prisons in America

Voices from Solitary: “Suicide Is Preferable to Long-Term Segregation”

Judge Rules California Solitary Confinement Lawsuit Should Have Its Day in Court

Twelve Years in Solitary, and “Still in Illegal Limbo”