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A reader recently called our attention to an long piece in the London Review of Books by Gareth Peirce, a British solicitor known for taking on high-profile–and often controversial–human rights cases. In the 1993 film In the Name of the Father, Peirce, played by Emma Thompson, is shown defending a group of Irish men wrongly […]

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“Extradition to a Future of Total Isolation” Opposed by British Human Rights Lawyer

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Oregon Converts Supermax Unit to Treat Prisoners With Mental Illness

Lessons from Solitary

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

Supreme Court Decision Limits Juvenile Life Without Parole (Within Limits)

Voices from Solitary: New Memoir by Wilbert Rideau

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

The Machinery of Death: Some Death Row Prisoners Can Still Opt for Firing Squad (or Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, or Noose)

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

Teen Kills Himself After Being Put in Solitary for…Trying to Kill Himself

Dead Man Killing Himself

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

Maine’s Solitary Confinement Bill: Another Test of Our Tolerance for Torture

Johnny Cash: Solitary Man

Charles Dickens on Solitary Confinement: “Immense Torture and Agony”

Voices from Solitary: Charles P. Norman on “The Insanity of Solitary Confinement”