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Guest Post by Samuel Weiss and Amy Fettig Samuel Weiss is Ford Foundation Fellow at the ACLU’s Center for Justice. Amy Fettig is Senior Staff Counsel at the ACLU’s National Prison Project. In March, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee when he received a question on prison overcrowding. He responded […]

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Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Invites Constitutional Challenge of Solitary Confinement

Working from the Inside Out

In the Story of Jonah, an Urgent Lesson About the Dangers of Solitary Confinement

Prayers for People in Solitary Confinement

“Disappearing” the Disadvantaged Into Prison, and Into Solitary Confinement

Doing “Bing Time”: Memories of a Mental Health Worker in Rikers Island’s Solitary Confinement Unit

Prison Segregation and Racial Disparities

One Month After Historic Hunger Strike, California Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

U.S. DOJ Documents Torturous Treatment in Pennsylvania Solitary Confinement Unit

Russell Maroon Shoatz: Resisting the “Spiritual Death” of Solitary Confinement

To See or Not to See: Capturing Herman Wallace’s 41 Years in Solitary

Opposing the Architecture of Isolation: Architects Against Solitary Confinement

Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention

The Hidden History of Solitary Confinement in New Jersey’s Control Units

A Preventable Death in an Arizona Prison

Twelve Years in Solitary, and “Still in Illegal Limbo”

Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement

Extradited to a Future of Torture in a U.S. Supermax Prison

Mumia Abu-Jamal Challenges Death Row Solitary Confinement and Life Without Parole

Portrait of a Prison Whistleblower—and His Punishment

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

Prison Myth No. 1: “Prisoners Want to Go Into Solitary Confinement”

“Fatal Flaws” in the Colorado Solitary Confinement Study

How to Create Madness in Prison

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

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Lessons from Solitary

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons