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Dr. Craig Haney has investigated the psychological effects of prison conditions for more than 40 years, and has spent time in dozens of supermax prisons and solitary confinement units. But the conditions in the Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison’s solitary confinement facility, the Special Management Unit (SMU)—where incarcerated men swallow hacksaw blades and their own […]

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Could This Be the Worst Solitary Confinement Unit in the Nation?

Seven Days in Solitary [10/29/17]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/8/2017]

Solitary Confinement Gets Another Sharp Rebuke from a Supreme Court Justice

Seven Days in Solitary [3/12/2017]

At Louisiana’s Angola Prison, Lawsuit Claims, the Sick Face Neglect, Isolation, and Death

Lawsuit Charges Delaware Prison System With Neglect and Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill

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

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

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Invites Constitutional Challenge of Solitary Confinement

American Outcasts: U.S. Prisons and Modern Day Banishment

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

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy: “Solitary Confinement Literally Drives Men Mad”

Fates Worse Than Death?

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

UN Committee on Torture Questions U.S. Record on Solitary Confinement

U.S. Government Tells UN: “No Systematic Use of Solitary Confinement in the United States”

Pennsylvania Prison System Faces Lawsuit Over Suicide of Young Man with Mental Illness

Voices from Solitary: Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Transgender Women

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]

Holder Makes Obama Administration’s First Public Statement on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Analyzing Isolation, Part I

Severely Disabled Man Sues New York State Prisons for Neglect, Abuse

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

Way Down in the Hole: Senate Hearing Challenges Solitary Confinement for Some, But Not All

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

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/13]

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