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Four years ago today, approximately 6,600 people in California prisons launched a hunger strike in protest of long-term solitary confinement. The protest would be the first of three large-scale actions by state prisoners to bring awareness to the issue of long-term solitary confinement. At the epicenter was Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, home of […]

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After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Invites Constitutional Challenge of Solitary Confinement

Will Lawsuits and Exposés Lead to Reform of Florida’s Brutal Prisons?

Federal Judge Orders Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Released After 43 Years in Solitary

Law Aimed at Silencing People Convicted of Crimes Is Declared Unconstitutional

At Ohio’s Supermax Prison, a Hunger Strike Ends But Extreme Isolation Remains

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy: “Solitary Confinement Literally Drives Men Mad”

In Canada, a Death in Prison Sparks Debate, Lawsuits Over Solitary Confinement

Settlement to Improve Arizona’s Prison Health Care, Limit Use of Solitary Confinement

Reports Condemn Healthcare and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons

Pennsylvania Prison System Faces Lawsuit Over Suicide of Young Man with Mental Illness

New York City Officials and Advocates Push for Change to the “Culture of Brutality” on Rikers Island

Voices from Solitary: Testimony of a Jailhouse Lawyer

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/14]

Advisers to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hold Briefing on Juvenile Solitary Confinement in New York

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

Seven Days in Solitary [7/6/2014]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/22/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]

Voices from Solitary: Playing “The Con Game” at Pelican Bay

Holder Makes Obama Administration’s First Public Statement on Solitary Confinement

On the Way to Solitary, Women in Massachusetts Jail Get Strip Searched and Videotaped

Severely Disabled Man Sues New York State Prisons for Neglect, Abuse

Torture on Death Row: Court Rules Against Automatic Use of Solitary Confinement for the Condemned

Seven Days in Solitary [3/9/14]

ADX H-Unit on Hunger Strike, Prisoners Being Force-Fed

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

Seven Days in Solitary [2/16/14]