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Special Management Unit

Dr. Craig Haney has investigated the psychological effects of prison conditions for more than 40 years, and has spent time in dozens of supermax prisons and solitary confinement units. But the conditions in the Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison’s solitary confinement facility, the Special Management Unit (SMU)—where incarcerated men swallow hacksaw blades and their own […]

News & Features

Could This Be the Worst Solitary Confinement Unit in the Nation?

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by Jess Hallam

August 1, 2018

News & Features

Audit of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons: An Inside Job Reaches Foregone Conclusions

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

March 2, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Unnatural Disaster

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by Voices from Solitary

April 5, 2014

Voices from Solitary

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

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by Voices from Solitary

September 8, 2012

News & Features

Reducing Solitary Confinement in Maine

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

November 9, 2011

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Maine Cuts Supermax Population, Reforms Solitary Confinement Practices

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 2, 2011

Voices from Solitary

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

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

May 22, 2011

News & Features

Prison Myth No. 1: “Prisoners Want to Go Into Solitary Confinement”

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

February 6, 2011

News & Features

Another Suspicious Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

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by James Ridgeway

August 3, 2010

News & Features

The Maine Redemption: Bill Seeks to Restrict Use of Solitary in State’s Prisons

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 11, 2010

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