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The Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) has agreed to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Prison Law Office and their co-counsel on behalf of more than 33,000 people held in state prisons. Filed in 2012, the landmark case was scheduled to go to trial earlier this […]

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Mental Illness

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

Voices from Solitary: Survivors Speak

On Rikers Island, an End to the Solitary Confinement of Children

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part VII

Reports Condemn Healthcare and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons

American Experts Urge British Not to Believe What They Hear About US Prison Conditions

Seven Days in Solitary [9/07/2014]

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part VI

Seven Days in Solitary [8/31/14]

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

Voices from Solitary: What Have You Done to My Brother?

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

Videos Show Brutal Treatment of Prisoners with Mental Illness

Federal Supermax Prison “in Violation of International Law”: Amnesty International

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

Seven Days in Solitary [7/13/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/6/2014]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]

Voices from Solitary, Analyzing Isolation, Part III

Voices from Solitary: “That Which Does Not Kill Us…”

Seven Days in Solitary [5/18/14]

“Disappearing” the Disadvantaged Into Prison, and Into Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Head Cases

New ACLU Report Examines Devastating Impact of Solitary Confinement on Women

Voices from Solitary: Analyzing Isolation, Part I

Seven Days in Solitary [4/20/14]

Private Prison Giant CCA Weighs in on Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [3/9/14]

Way Down in the Hole: Senate Hearing Challenges Solitary Confinement for Some, But Not All