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Due Process

In Colorado, one of the nation’s solitary confinement capitals, state legislators recently brought hope to prisoners and their families and advocates by introducing a bill mean to limit the use of solitary. Now, that bill has been revised in committee, in favor of what the Associated Press bluntly described as “watered-down measures”: Colorado lawmakers have backed […]

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Colorado Lawmakers Present Weakened Version of Solitary Confinement Bill

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 28, 2011

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Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 26, 2011

Easter As a Story of Criminal Injustice

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 25, 2011

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Isolation Units Within U.S. Prisons: CCR Panel Discussion in San Francisco

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

April 1, 2011

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Prisoner Grievances: “The System for Going Up Against the System”

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

March 24, 2011

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Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

March 19, 2011

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Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

March 1, 2011

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Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 28, 2011

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Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 15, 2011

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Colorado Inmate Says He Was Thrown in Solitary for Refusing to Supply False Testimony

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 8, 2011

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Prison Whistleblower Condemned to Solitary Confinement

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 10, 2011

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Our Homegrown American Gitmos

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

November 5, 2010

The Colorado Files: Ballot Measure Would Keep Poor Defendants in Jail

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

October 16, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Letters from the Hole

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

October 10, 2010

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John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

October 5, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Katfish on Life in “The Bucket”

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 5, 2010

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“Outsourcing Punishment” and the Privatization of Justice

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

August 12, 2010

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Obama’s First Military Tribunal: Child Soldier Tortured at Bagram and Gitmo

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

August 10, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Gang “Validation” and Permanent Isolation in California Prisons

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

August 7, 2010

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Federal Judge: Extended Solitary Confinement Causes “Lasting Psychological Damage and Emotional Harm”

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

August 4, 2010

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Due Process Rights Routinely Suppressed in California Prisons

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

August 3, 2010

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Judge Rules Procedures at Tamms Supermax Violate Constitution

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

July 21, 2010

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What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 22, 2010

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Super-Secretive Supermax Prisons: Last Day to Register Opposition

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 2, 2010

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Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

April 10, 2010

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Storming “Little Gitmo”: Lawsuit Challenges Restricted Units in Federal Prisons

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

April 1, 2010

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Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 16, 2010

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What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 16, 2010

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America’s “Most Isolated Man” Sues the Bureau of Prisons

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 22, 2010

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