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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 […]

News & Features

Solitary Confinement

“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

Super-Secretive Supermax Prisons: Last Day to Register Opposition

Richard Ross Photographs Children in Solitary Confinement

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

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

Abuse and Cover-Up in California Prisons’ “Behavior Management Units”

Voices from Solitary: New Memoir by Wilbert Rideau

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

Live from Death Row: 3,600 Americans Waiting Alone to Die

N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown

Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement: Our Generation of Americans “Has Countenanced Legalized Torture”

Cash-Strapped Colorado Comes Up With Funds for New Supermax

Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

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

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

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

Storming “Little Gitmo”: Lawsuit Challenges Restricted Units in Federal Prisons

Punishment for Possessing One Joint = Jail, Solitary Confinement, and Deportation

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