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long-term isolation

  The Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) has opened a new facility with 500 maximum-security prison beds in the Rast Unit at the Arizona State Prison Complex (ASPC Lewis) in Buckeye, Arizona. (Maximum-security prisons in the state of Arizona are what is usually thought of as supermax prisons.) The opening of the new facility comes on the […]

News & Features

Arizona Opens New $50M Supermax Prison; Report Denounces State’s Use of Solitary

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by Lisa Dawson

December 11, 2014

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Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in California Respond to Prison Policy Reforms

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by Sal Rodriguez

May 1, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “A Terribly Unique Experience”

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by Voices from Solitary

April 1, 2012

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Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement: Our Generation of Americans “Has Countenanced Legalized Torture”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

April 13, 2010

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