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In prisons throughout the country, perceived gang membership is one of the leading reasons for placement in solitary confinement. In California alone, hundreds of prisoners are in Security Housing Units (SHUs) because they have been “validated” as gang members. The validation procedure used by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) employs such criteria as tattoos, reading materials, […]

Voices from Solitary

Physical Effects

Voices from Solitary: Gang “Validation” and Permanent Isolation in California Prisons

Pennsylvania Legislators Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Another Suspicious Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Private Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots

Prison Heat: Hunger Strike Highlights Summer’s Deadly Toll on U.S. Inmates

A Supermax Prisoner’s Film from Hell

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

Louisiana Jail Locks Up Suicidal Prisoners in 3′ x 3′ Cages

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

Voices from Solitary: “What Prisoners Have…”

Voices from Solitary: Life in a Pennsylvania Prison’s “Restricted Housing Unit”

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”

Saving Jamie Scott, Victim of Prison Health Care

Live from Death Row: 3,600 Americans Waiting Alone to Die

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

Cash-Strapped Colorado Comes Up With Funds for New Supermax

Maine Legislature Votes to Study Solitary Confinement Practices–But Not to Change Them

AFSC Seeks Stories of Isolation and Torture in U.S. Prisons

Solitary Watch Watches National Geographic’s Experiment in Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement: Coming Live to a Computer Near You

The Lost Boys of Westchester County’s SHU

Federal Lawsuit Challenges 27 Years of Supermax Confinement

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

A Suspicious (and Lonely) Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Ask Shamu: The U.S. Tortures Both Human and Animal Prisoners

Cruel Punishment Is Not Unusual for Clarence Thomas

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement