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Today, the Washington Post published an editorial titled “Call Solitary Confinement What It Is: Torture.” It is the strongest condemnation yet by a major national newspaper of the practice used on tens of thousands of people in U.S. prisons and jails. (Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the estimate was at least 80,000; now the number […]

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Supreme Court

The Truth Behind Dennis Hope’s Decades of Torture in Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [2/16/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/1/18]

Lawsuits Challenge the Cruelty of Decades in Solitary Confinement on Death Row

How the Supreme Court Handed Trump a Free Pass for Discrimination and Abuse Against Detainees

Seven Days in Solitary [6/25/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/30/2017]

Solitary Confinement Gets Another Sharp Rebuke from a Supreme Court Justice

Seven Days in Solitary [3/12/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/28/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/12/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/5/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/15/2016]

Will the Supreme Court Free Albert Woodfox After 43 Years in Solitary?

Seven Days in Solitary [10/18/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/20/2015]

British Supreme Court Rules Against Unlawful Use of Prolonged Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [7/26/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/5/2015]

Kalief Browder’s Life and Death Galvanize Action to End Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [6/28/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/21/15]

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape Takes Her Case to the Supreme Court

John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

Supreme Court Decision Limits Juvenile Life Without Parole (Within Limits)

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

Punishment for Possessing One Joint = Jail, Solitary Confinement, and Deportation

Ask Shamu: The U.S. Tortures Both Human and Animal Prisoners