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Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah currently holds over 91 prisoners in solitary confinement in the Uinta One facility. Prisoners have described the facility as “a place of pain and terror” and a place where inmates “expect tragedy.” While Utah Department of Corrections admits that the facility on occasion houses prisoners diagnosed as “mentally ill”, they […]

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Mentally Ill Utah Prisoner Sentenced to 20 Days in Solitary for Not Moving Cup Fast Enough

Bradley Manning’s Torture in Solitary Confinement Is Subject of Pre-Trial Hearing

Mentally Ill Man Dies, Injured and Alone, in a Tulsa Jail Cell

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

Teen Dies in Solitary in Georgia Jail After Alleged Medical Neglect

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in Ohio Stage Two-Week Hunger Strike

Suicides in Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons

Montana Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer in Solitary Confinement

Criminalizing Mental Illness: The Story of Adam Hall

Federal Judge Criticizes Supermax Confinement in Colorado

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Solitary Confinement Leads to Suffering and Suicide in Pennsylvania’s Prisons

Montana Settlement Limits Solitary Confinement for Juveniles, Prisoners with Mental Illness

“Complete Lawlessness” at Orleans Parish Prison

“Cruel Isolation”: Amnesty International Report Blasts Conditions in Arizona’s Prisons

More Suicides in Solitary Plague Massachusetts Prisons

Leading Mental Health Experts Urge Illinois Legislators to Close Tamms Supermax

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

Prisoners with Mental Illness Suffer — and Die — in Arizona’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Lawsuit Charges Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Family of California Prisoner Who Died on Hunger Strike Speaks Out

Lawsuit Challenges South Carolina’s Use of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners with Mental Illness

Shackled in Solitary: Prisoners with Mental Illness in Michigan’s Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “We Will Not Stop Until We Are Heard”

Voices From Solitary: Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Was “the Only Way to Get the Word Out” About Prison Abuses

“Give Us in Here the Strength to See This Thing Through”: A Chronicle of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike

Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”