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The model electric chair sitting on the desk of New Orleans prosecutor JimWilliams was like a piece of stranger-than-fiction Louisiana Gothic. But for John Thompson, it was all too real. “Seated” in the electric chair were photographs of five African American men that the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office had proudly sent to death row. […]

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John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

Voices from Solitary: A Little Taste of “Freedom”

How to Create Madness in Prison

Cash-Strapped California to Spend $500 Million for New “Condemned Inmate Complex” (Death Row)

Psychiatrists on Solitary Confinement

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Voices from Solitary: Katfish on Life in “The Bucket”

Voices from Solitary: Ara Oshagan Photographs California Juvies

Voices from Solitary: Walla Walla IMU

“I Spent 29 Years in Solitary Confinement”

Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical Ethics”

Voices from Solitary: Life on Level 3, Texas Death Row

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

“Epidemic” of Suicides in Massachusetts Prisons

Pennsylvania Legislators Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Federal Judge: Extended Solitary Confinement Causes “Lasting Psychological Damage and Emotional Harm”

Private Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots

Voices from Solitary: Supermaxed Out in Colorado

Montana Teen Who Faced Torture in Prison Asks Judge to Keep Him Out of Solitary

A Supermax Prisoner’s Film from Hell

Clarence Thomas “Outraged” by Treatment of His Nephew, But Condones the Same for Thousands of Others

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

Alaska Teen Spends 17-Months in Pre-Trial Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “What Prisoners Have…”

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

Voices from Solitary: Oscar Wilde’s Cry from the Depths

Voices from Solitary: Ray Luc Levasseur on Life in ADX