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Kijana Tashiri Askari has been in solitary confinement since 1994 after he was “validated” as a member of the Black Guerrilla Family. Until recently in California’s prisons, people who were validated as gang members were sentenced to indeterminate stays in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), where they spent nearly 24 hours in windowless cells. In […]

Voices from Solitary

Supermax Prisons

Voices from Solitary: The Safari from Pelikkkan Bay

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy: “Solitary Confinement Literally Drives Men Mad”

UN Torture Investigator Barred from Visiting American Supermax Prisons

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

In California Prisons, Hundreds Removed from Solitary Confinement—and Thousands Remain

Civil and Human Rights Groups to Eric Holder: No New Federal Supermax Prison at Thomson

New Federal Supermax Prison Will Double Capacity for Extreme Solitary Confinement

For Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, A Year of Incremental Reform

UN Committee on Torture Says U.S. Must Reform Its Use of Solitary Confinement

Fates Worse Than Death?

Working from the Inside Out

UN Committee on Torture Questions U.S. Record on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Is “Torture” Too Strong of a Word?

Voices from Solitary: The Heaviness of Blood

Pope Francis Denounces Solitary Confinement, Calls for Prison Conditions That “Respect Human Dignity”

Voices from Solitary: Survivors Speak

Voices from Solitary: Freedom Shares My Cell

U.S. Government Tells UN: “No Systematic Use of Solitary Confinement in the United States”

In the Story of Jonah, an Urgent Lesson About the Dangers of Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part VII

American Experts Urge British Not to Believe What They Hear About US Prison Conditions

News from the Hole: The Words of People in Solitary Confinement in America’s Prisons

Transgender Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Sexual Assault

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/14]

Federal Supermax Prison “in Violation of International Law”: Amnesty International

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

New Solitary Confinement Policies in California Bring Small Changes and Raise Big Questions

Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]