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• In the year since the historic settlement agreement in Ashker v. Brown, there has been a 99% decrease in long-term solitary confinement at California’s Pelican Bay Prison. Center for Constitutional Rights staff wrote about the significant gains from the settlement in Truth-Out. • Idaho’s work to decrease its use of solitary confinement was featured on […]

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Seven Days in Solitary [10/30/2016]

After California Prisons Release “Gang Affiliates” From Solitary Confinement, Costs and Violence Levels Drop

“Suicide Checks” Lead to Extreme Sleep Deprivation at Pelican Bay Prison

California Expects to Save $28 Million By Reducing Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [11/29/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/06/2015]

California Prison Hunger Strikes Sparked Solitary Reforms, Internal Documents Show

Seven Days in Solitary [8/16/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/9/2015]

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

Seven Days in Solitary [5/3/15]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/15/2015]

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

New Solitary Confinement Policies in California Bring Small Changes and Raise Big Questions

Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]

Seven Months After Historic Prison Hunger Strike, Opponents of Solitary in California Gauge the Pace of Change

How Many People Are In Solitary Confinement in California’s Prisons?

Seven Days in Solitary [12/1/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/29/13]

A Month in Solitary [8/31/13]

UN: Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Can Be Torture, Force-Feeding Unacceptable

California Prison Hunger Strikers to Be Force-Fed

Day 41 of California Hunger Strike: CDCR Still Insists It’s A Gang Power Play

Day 39 of California Prison Hunger Strike: Governor Jerry Brown Remains Silent

Day 36 of California Hunger Strike: Hundreds Still Protesting Isolation Policies

Calipatria Hunger Striker: “Putting Everything On The Line For Dignity”

30 Days of Hunger Striking, California Prisons Chief Insists It’s “Gang Power Play”

Hundreds Still on Hunger Strike in California Prisons As Situation Becomes Increasingly Dire

Suicide of California Hunger Strike Participant Draws National Attention to a Broken System