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Note: The following piece ran on The Guardian’s website on Monday, July 25. On 21 July, prisoners in solitary confinement at California’s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison began accepting the meals that were slipped to them through slots in their solid mental cell doors. For many, it was the first time they had eaten in three weeks. A group […]

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A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Maine Reduces Use of Solitary Confinement

As Prisoners End Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay, Their Cause Continues

Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: On Solitary Confinement and Finding Humanity

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Solitary Confinement Widely Used in California’s Juvenile Jails

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

Mentally Ill Inmate Starves to Death in Utah Jail

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Maine Cuts Supermax Population, Reforms Solitary Confinement Practices

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Voices from Solitary: “An Insane Asylum Disguised As an SMU”

Voices from Solitary: A Mother’s Story

America’s Most Isolated Federal Prisoner Describes 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Colorado Department of Corrections in Need of Correction

Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

Solitary Confinement Comes to Capitol Hill

Voices from Solitary: “Destroyed Souls”

Isolation Units Within U.S. Prisons: CCR Panel Discussion in San Francisco

Tolerating Torture

Voices from Solitary: Live from Lockdown

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning