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As of today, alleged Wikileaker Bradley Manning has been held without trial for 1,000 days. More than nine months of that time was spent in solitary confinement in the Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia. To mark the date, we recommend reading Chase Madar’s book The Passion of Bradley Manning–or, next best, the long excerpt from the […]

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Bradley Manning Marks 1,000 Days in Pre-Trial Detention

“Companionship or Death”: Jewish Engagement With the Injustice of Solitary Confinement

At U.N. Prisoners’ Rights Meeting, U.S. Resists Limits on Solitary Confinement

Bradley Manning’s Torture in Solitary Confinement Is Subject of Pre-Trial Hearing

New from Solitary Watch: “Solitary 101” PowerPoint Presentation

Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America’s Official Child Abuse

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

Amnesty International Releases Report Condemning California Prison Isolation Units

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hear Testimony on the Torture of Solitary Confinement

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Defense Describes Bradley Manning’s “Unlawful Pretrial Punishment” in Solitary Confinement

Pennsylvania Prisoner Commits Suicide in Isolation Unit

AFSC Releases “Survivors Manual” By and For Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Can’t You Hear Us?

Demonstrators Protest Solitary Confinement and Brutality in New York City’s Jails

Voices from Solitary: “No Human Being Should Be Treated This Way”

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

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Now Available: Collection of Written Testimony for Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Behind Enemy Lines

First Congressional Hearing on Solitary Confinement to Be Held June 19

Former Rikers Island Chaplain Speaks Out Against Growth of Solitary Confinement

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

New Film Explores “the Injustice of Solitary Confinement and the Transformative Power of Art”

European Human Rights Court Rules Terror Suspects Can Be Extradited to U.S. Supermax

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene