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Perhaps no story captures the injustice and horror of juvenile solitary confinement more than that of Kalief Browder, the Bronx sixteen-year-old who was wrongfully accused of stealing a backpack in 2010 and spent three years on Rikers Island awaiting trial. Two of his three years on Rikers were spent in solitary confinement, where Kalief was […]

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Movement to End Juvenile Solitary Confinement Gains Ground, But Hundreds of Kids Remain in Isolation

Voices from Solitary: A Second-by-Second Attack on Your Soul

What Solitary Confinement Does to the Human Brain

Voices from Solitary: The Torture Chamber

Seven Days in Solitary [5/12/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/4/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [4.27.13]

Seven Days in Solitary [4.4.13]

Florida Bill Would Limit Use of Solitary Confinement on Children

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America’s Official Child Abuse

Scientists Discover How Social Isolation Damages Young Brains

Washington Prisoner Subjected to Solitary Confinement for “Involuntary Protection”

Voices from Solitary: From the Vortex of Uinta One

Voices from Solitary: “No Longer a Part of the World”

Voices from Solitary: Exiled In Purgatory

Former Detainee Describes Solitary Confinement at Guantanamo

How to Create Madness in Prison