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The following comes from Georgia prisoner Carlos Grier, also known as Mr. BigMann. Grier was convicted in 1999 for the shooting death of a girlfriend (he maintains his innocence). For over two years, he has been incarcerated at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison’s Special Management Unit, where 192 inmates are held in solitary confinement. […]

Voices from Solitary

Supermax Prisons

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

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Solitary Confinement: New York’s Hidden Problem

Voices from Solitary: A Spark in the Dark

Judge Rules Against Colorado Supermax That Keeps Prisoners Indoors for Years

New Report Examines the Hardships of Life After Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: What Happens When the War Is Over

Political or Gang Activity? “New Afrikan” Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

One Year After Historic Hunger Strike, Isolated California Prisoners Report Little Change

Federal Prisons Chief Sends Memo Urging Prisoners Not to Kill Themselves

Pennsylvania Prisoner Commits Suicide in Isolation Unit

North Carolina Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike

AFSC Releases “Survivors Manual” By and For Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

Voices from Solitary: “A Sort of Solitary Psychosis”

Shutting Down a Supermax: An Interview With Alan Mills of the Uptown People’s Law Center

Voices from Solitary: Can’t You Hear Us?

“New York’s Black Sites”: New Article About Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “No Human Being Should Be Treated This Way”

Voices from Solitary: “Loneliness Is a Destroyer of Humanity”

Guantanamo “Is Not an Aberration”: How the War on Terror Came Home

Voices from Solitary: Washington Cell Extraction

One Year Anniversary of Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Isolated for Having a “Gang” Calendar

A Day in the Life of Three Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

The “Torture of Isolation” Gains Media Attention

Lawsuit Challenges Conditions at ADX Federal Supermax

Voices from Solitary: “I Lost the Will to Live”