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According to Congressional testimony released yesterday, the former official in Bush’s Justice Department who co-authored the most famous of the “torture memos,” said he had sanctioned certain harsh “interrogation techniques” used by the CIA on terrorism suspects, but not others. As the Los Angeles Times reported, “Jay S. Bybee, former head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, said in […]

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“Torture Memo” Author Says He Authorized Waterboarding, But Not “Extended Solitary Confinement”

Clarence Thomas “Outraged” by Treatment of His Nephew, But Condones the Same for Thousands of Others

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Louisiana Jail Locks Up Suicidal Prisoners in 3′ x 3′ Cages

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

Alaska Teen Spends 17-Months in Pre-Trial Solitary Confinement

Two Inmates Die in Agony As Prison Staff Stands By

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

Court Rules Against Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude

“Extradition to a Future of Total Isolation” Opposed by British Human Rights Lawyer

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Lessons from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”

Supreme Court Decision Limits Juvenile Life Without Parole (Within Limits)

Abuse and Cover-Up in California Prisons’ “Behavior Management Units”

N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown

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

Maine Legislature Votes to Study Solitary Confinement Practices–But Not to Change Them

Solitary Watch Watches National Geographic’s Experiment in Solitary Confinement

Federal Lawsuit Challenges 27 Years of Supermax Confinement

Ask Shamu: The U.S. Tortures Both Human and Animal Prisoners

Cruel Punishment Is Not Unusual for Clarence Thomas

Teen Kills Himself After Being Put in Solitary for…Trying to Kill Himself

Dead Man Killing Himself

Maine’s Solitary Confinement Bill: Another Test of Our Tolerance for Torture

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment