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In Fall 2012, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) unveiled its “Step Down” program to evaluate prisoners with indefinite terms in its notorious Security Housing Units (SHUs) for release to general population. The program immediately drew criticism from both prisoners and their advocates, who charged that even those who have spent years in the SHU […]

Voices from Solitary

Supermax Prisons

Voices from Solitary: Playing “The Con Game” at Pelican Bay

The Odyssey to Pelican Bay: Families Journey to California’s Notorious Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [5/25/14]

Holder Makes Obama Administration’s First Public Statement on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “That Which Does Not Kill Us…”

Seven Days in Solitary [5/11/14]

“Disappearing” the Disadvantaged Into Prison, and Into Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Head Cases

Voices from Solitary: Analyzing Isolation, Part I

Voices from Solitary: Unnatural Disaster

Voices from Solitary: TV Death Row

Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [3/9/14]

Way Down in the Hole: Senate Hearing Challenges Solitary Confinement for Some, But Not All

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

ADX H-Unit on Hunger Strike, Prisoners Being Force-Fed

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

At Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons, Advocates Challenge “Reforms”

Seven Months After Historic Prison Hunger Strike, Opponents of Solitary in California Gauge the Pace of Change

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/14]

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

Seven Days in Solitary [2/2/14]

Voices from Solitary: Walk With Me — Life on the Inside of the SMU at USP Lewisburg

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/13]

New Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil

Seven Days in Solitary [1/5/14]

Voices from Solitary: “This Massive Mind-Fuck Machine”

Seven Days in Solitary [12/29/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/22/13]