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The Associated Press has reported that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is reforming its policies regarding the controversial Security Housing Units (SHUs), where thousands of inmates are held in solitary confinement for an average of 6.8 years. According to the AP: Gang members would no longer have to renounce their gang membership. […]

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

Illinois Governor Proposes Closing Controversial Tamms Supermax Prison

“The Gray Box”: Must-Read Article (Plus Video) on Solitary Confinement in America

The Guantánamos Next Door

California Considers New Rules for Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Solitary Confinement on Rikers Island: An Interview with the Prisoners Rights Project

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

New Study: Solitary Confinement Overused in Colorado

Voices from Solitary: Hank Skinner’s Dispatches from Texas Death Row

Texas Prepares to Execute Hank Skinner Without Testing DNA

Voices from Solitary: Letter from Calipatria Prison Hunger Strikers

Federal Judge Rules 28 Years in Solitary Confinement Not “Extreme,” Dismisses Silverstein Case

Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

The Truth About Solitary Confinement in California

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

Voices From Solitary: Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Was “the Only Way to Get the Word Out” About Prison Abuses

Historic California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

“Give Us in Here the Strength to See This Thing Through”: A Chronicle of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike

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

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

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

America’s Most Isolated Federal Prisoner Describes 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Colorado Department of Corrections in Need of Correction