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Perhaps the most moving testimony Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on solitary confinement came from death row exonoree Anthony Graves. Graves spent over 18 years on Texas’ death row for a crime he did not commit. Living in an 8 x 12 cell, he had little social contact, and described horrible, degrading conditions. “Like all […]

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Solitary and Death Row Survivor Anthony Graves Speaks Out

Congress Unlocks America’s Hidden Shame of Solitary Confinement

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: From a Nevada Hole

Voices from Solitary: From the Vortex of Uinta One

California Bill Would Lift Media Ban on Access to Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “No Longer a Part of the World”

Voices from Solitary: “The SHU Is California’s Equivalent of Waterboarding”

Voices from Solitary: Behind Enemy Lines

First Congressional Hearing on Solitary Confinement to Be Held June 19

Voices from Solitary: Exiled In Purgatory

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in Ohio Stage Two-Week Hunger Strike

Suicides in Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons

Pelican Bay Prisoners File Lawsuit Against Long-Term Isolation

Voices from Solitary: A Lose-Lose Situation

Virginia Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Launch Hunger Strike

Mothers with Sons in Solitary Tell Their Stories

Federal Judge Criticizes Supermax Confinement in Colorado

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in California Respond to Prison Policy Reforms

Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado

Voices from Solitary: Waking Nightmares

Testimony from Hearing on Closure of Tamms Supermax Prison

Families of California Prisoners Respond to Controversial Reforms of Solitary Confinement

European Human Rights Court Rules Terror Suspects Can Be Extradited to U.S. Supermax

“Cruel Isolation”: Amnesty International Report Blasts Conditions in Arizona’s Prisons

Leading Mental Health Experts Urge Illinois Legislators to Close Tamms Supermax

Pelican Bay SHU Prisoners Respond to California’s Proposed Prisons Reforms

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

New Resource: Solitary Confinement FAQ