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“Dear America” wrote Anthony Gay, who is being held in solitary confinement in Tamms supermax prison in Illinois, “It is like this place is designed to psychologically kill you. How could America be so cruel to its own people?… Is there a need to psychologically kill prisoners?” In Gay’s case, his lawyers claim, a seven-year term […]

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Illinois Prisoner Says Years of Solitary Confinement Caused Mental Illness, Self-Mutilation

“Pawns in a Failed Experiment”: Testimony of Dr. Craig Haney on Solitary Confinement

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Who Are the Hunger Strikers? How Prisoners Land in Pelican Bay’s SHU

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker

Solitary Confinement Widely Used in California’s Juvenile Jails

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

America’s Most Isolated Federal Prisoner Describes 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

Isolation Units Within U.S. Prisons: CCR Panel Discussion in San Francisco

Supreme Court Rules Against Exonerated Death Row Inmate, for Prosecutors Who Withheld Evidence

Prisoner Grievances: “The System for Going Up Against the System”

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

ACLU Takes a Strong Stand Against Solitary Confinement

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs

New Resources on Solitary Confinement

Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape Takes Her Case to the Supreme Court

Suicide and Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Leaving Cañon City

John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

Another Prisoner With Mental Illness Dies in Isolation

Psychiatrists on Solitary Confinement

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Voices from Solitary: Gang “Validation” and Permanent Isolation in California Prisons