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Guest Post by Laura Rovner Last week, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights rejected appeals from five terror suspects challenging their extraditions from Britain to the United States. The unanimous decision from the judges affirmed the Court’s earlier ruling that “detention conditions and length of sentences of five alleged terrorists would […]

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Extradited to a Future of Torture in a U.S. Supermax Prison

Unlock the Box: The Fight Against Solitary Confinement in New York

Amnesty International Releases Report Condemning California Prison Isolation Units

New Report Calls for End to Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

Solitary Policies in California Revised, As Prisoner Leaders Promote End to Racial Hostilities

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hear Testimony on the Torture of Solitary Confinement

Scientists Discover How Social Isolation Damages Young Brains

Portrait of a Prison Whistleblower—and His Punishment

Pennsylvania Legislators to Hold Hearing on Solitary Confinement

“Total Isolation”: Solitary Confinement in Oregon

Tamms Supermax Prison Closure Temporarily Halted

Voices from Solitary: A Man’s Strength Behind a Steel Door

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Solitary Confinement: New York’s Hidden Problem

Voices from Solitary: A Spark in the Dark

New Report Examines the Hardships of Life After Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: What Happens When the War Is Over

One Year After Historic Hunger Strike, Isolated California Prisoners Report Little Change

Pennsylvania Prisoner Commits Suicide in Isolation Unit

AFSC Releases “Survivors Manual” By and For Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Surviving the “Prison Within a Prison”

New Video: “Solitary Confinement: The Season of Sorrow”

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

Voices from Solitary: “A Sort of Solitary Psychosis”

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

Voices from Solitary: “No Human Being Should Be Treated This Way”

Voices from Solitary: “Loneliness Is a Destroyer of Humanity”

Guantanamo “Is Not an Aberration”: How the War on Terror Came Home