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Supermax Prisons

While taking some vacation time, we missed this powerful opinion piece by Helen Redmond, which appeared last week on Al Jazeera English. It describes in visceral detail the brutality of life in America’s supermax prisons. “People walked by and asked: ‘How are you doing?’ I answered: ‘How am I supposed to be doing? That’s the […]

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Supermax Prisons

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Maine Reduces Use of Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

As Prisoners End Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay, Their Cause Continues

Statements from Human Rights and Civil Rights Groups Support Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers

Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

Who Are the Hunger Strikers? How Prisoners Land in Pelican Bay’s SHU

Update: Pelican Bay Prisoners Reject State Proposal, Continue Hunger Strike

Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

Maine Cuts Supermax Population, Reforms Solitary Confinement Practices

Groups Urge Holder to Clean House at the Bureau of Prisons

America’s Most Isolated Federal Prisoner Describes 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Colorado Department of Corrections in Need of Correction

Colorado Lawmakers Present Weakened Version of Solitary Confinement Bill

Report from Panel Discussion on Prison Isolation Units

No Budget Cuts for Federal Prisons

Isolation Units Within U.S. Prisons: CCR Panel Discussion in San Francisco

Voices from Solitary: Live from Lockdown

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)