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• According to the Trentonian, James Covington, a physically and mentally disabled man held at the Doylestown detention center in Pennsylvania for unpaid fines, claims that he suffered an unprovoked racist attack when three white corrections officers picked on him for his height, called him the N-word, assaulted him to the point of breaking his […]

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Seven Days in Solitary [10/29/17]

Lawsuits Challenge the Cruelty of Decades in Solitary Confinement on Death Row

Solitary Confinement Gets Another Sharp Rebuke from a Supreme Court Justice

Federal Court Acknowledges Growing Legal and “Scientific Consensus” on Harms Caused by Solitary Confinement

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

Federal Lawsuit Challenges Brutality in Solitary Confinement Unit at North Carolina Prison

“Millennium Bomber,” Scarred by 12 Years in Solitary, Is Sentenced to 37 More

Guantanamo “Is Not an Aberration”: How the War on Terror Came Home

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Decision of Federal Judge Frees Prisoner from Solitary Confinement

New Resources on Solitary Confinement

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

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

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

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