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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. –Fyodor Dostoyevsky In recent years, resistance to the widespread use of solitary confinement has gained significant traction in the United States. Opponents of the practice have drawn upon everything from psychology and neuroscience to criminology and economics to show the many […]

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What It Means to Be Human: A Philosopher’s Argument Against Solitary Confinement

UN Investigator Says Long-Term Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons Is Torture

Voices from Solitary: “Mind Blowing Because I’m a Kid”

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part V

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part IV

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

At Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons, Advocates Challenge “Reforms”

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

New York Lawmakers Introduce Bill to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Prison Health Care: Is the American Health Profession Ignoring a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight?

Seven Days in Solitary [1/26/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/13]

New Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil

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

Seven Days in Solitary [1/5/14]

War [on Crime] Is Over — If You Want It

Solitary Confinement: Too Controversial for Costco

Activists Urge U.S. Government to Grant UN Torture Expert Access to New York’s Prisons

Mandela in Solitary

“This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse”: An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

Seven Days in Solitary [11/24/13]

In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

Seven Days in Solitary [11/10/13]

New Report Criticizes Use of Solitary Confinement in New Mexico Prisons and Jails

Seven Days in Solitary [11/3/13]

Voices from Solitary: Solitary Confinement’s Invisible Scars

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

Oversight in British Prisons: A Model for the U.S.?

Seven Days in Solitary [10/13/13]