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On July 15, an inmate hanged himself in his cell at the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, bringing the number of suicides in Massachusetts state prisons this year to eight. The rate of suicides, which so far averages one a month, is four times the national average. According to the Boston Globe, prisoner advocates’ “calls for an urgent response […]

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“Epidemic” of Suicides in Massachusetts Prisons

Federal Judge: Extended Solitary Confinement Causes “Lasting Psychological Damage and Emotional Harm”

Due Process Rights Routinely Suppressed in California Prisons

Private Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots

Montana Teen Who Faced Torture in Prison Asks Judge to Keep Him Out of Solitary

Judge Rules Procedures at Tamms Supermax Violate Constitution

Clarence Thomas “Outraged” by Treatment of His Nephew, But Condones the Same for Thousands of Others

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

Alaska Teen Spends 17-Months in Pre-Trial Solitary Confinement

Court Rules Against Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

Prisoner Sent to Solitary Based on Reading Materials

Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude

No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confinement

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown

The Machinery of Death: Some Death Row Prisoners Can Still Opt for Firing Squad (or Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, or Noose)

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

Storming “Little Gitmo”: Lawsuit Challenges Restricted Units in Federal Prisons

Federal Lawsuit Challenges 27 Years of Supermax Confinement

Cruel Punishment Is Not Unusual for Clarence Thomas

Teen Kills Himself After Being Put in Solitary for…Trying to Kill Himself

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners

Rastafarians Spend a Decade in Solitary for Refusing Haircuts

Solitary Confinement Is Not Healthy for Elephants (or Humans)