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Guest Post by Bonnie Kerness Editor’s Note: Bonnie Kerness of the American Friends Service Committee’s Prison Watch Project was one of the first Americans to name the widespread use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons as a form of torture. Her longtime battle against this practice is just one chapter in a lifetime spent in various forms of social justice […]

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Torture

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

Louisiana Jail Locks Up Suicidal Prisoners in 3′ x 3′ Cages

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

Two Inmates Die in Agony As Prison Staff Stands By

Voices from Solitary: “What Prisoners Have…”

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

Court Rules Against Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

“Extradition to a Future of Total Isolation” Opposed by British Human Rights Lawyer

Lessons from Solitary

Abuse and Cover-Up in California Prisons’ “Behavior Management Units”

Live from Death Row: 3,600 Americans Waiting Alone to Die

N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown

Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement: Our Generation of Americans “Has Countenanced Legalized Torture”

Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

Maine Legislature Votes to Study Solitary Confinement Practices–But Not to Change Them

AFSC Seeks Stories of Isolation and Torture in U.S. Prisons

Solitary Watch Watches National Geographic’s Experiment in Solitary Confinement

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

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

Cruel Punishment Is Not Unusual for Clarence Thomas

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement

Maine’s Solitary Confinement Bill: Another Test of Our Tolerance for Torture

Johnny Cash: Solitary Man

Charles Dickens on Solitary Confinement: “Immense Torture and Agony”

On Reality TV, Solitary Confinement Is a Game

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison