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Philip Miller was midway through a twenty-year sentence for robbery at Sing Sing Prison in New York, with an almost spotless prison record, when he was caught with a mobile phone in his cell in April 2010. He was charged with two disciplinary violations: “possession of contraband” and also “altering state property,” since he had hidden the cell phone […]

News & Features

New York

New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard

Solitary Confinement: New York’s Hidden Problem

New Audio: Is Solitary Confinement Torture?

“New York’s Black Sites”: New Article About Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Demonstrators Protest Solitary Confinement and Brutality in New York City’s Jails

Controversy Over Kids in Solitary Confinement in Texas

Criminalizing Mental Illness: The Story of Adam Hall

Solitary Confinement in New York (and in the New York Times)

How Many Prisoners Are in Solitary Confinement in the United States?

NYCLU to Host Meeting on Solitary Confinement in New York State

The Guantánamos Next Door

New York State Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement Reforms, Spike in Prison Suicide Rate

Solitary Confinement on Rikers Island: An Interview with the Prisoners Rights Project

Storm Over Rikers: Evacuating New York’s Island Jail

City Responds on Emergency Plans for Rikers Island

Locked Up and Left Behind: Hurricane Irene and the Prisoners on New York’s Rikers Island

Upcoming Forum in New York on Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

DSK’s “Tiny” Cell Was Spacious by U.S. Solitary Confinement Standards

Our Homegrown American Gitmos

Suicide and Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Russian “Spy” Anna Chapman Chose Deportation Over Solitary Confinement

Lessons from Solitary

Punishment for Possessing One Joint = Jail, Solitary Confinement, and Deportation

The Lost Boys of Westchester County’s SHU

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

NY Prison System Opens Unit for Mentally Ill