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It has been over three years since the first statewide hunger strike in protest of the California prison systems’ use of solitary confinement. The hunger strike, the first of many to follow, was launched by individuals housed in the state’s Security Housing Units (SHUs). The hunger strikes prompted state Legislative hearings, international scrutiny, and some […]

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

New Federal Supermax Prison Will Double Capacity for Extreme Solitary Confinement

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

Voices from Solitary: Cycle of Despair

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

Under Fire for Negligence, North Carolina Prisons Chief Seeks New Mental Health Funding

Arizona Opens New $50M Supermax Prison; Report Denounces State’s Use of Solitary

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

Fates Worse Than Death?

Working from the Inside Out

After 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Will the Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Be a Free Man?

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”

Voices from Solitary: A Mouse and a Murderer

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

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

Seven Days in Solitary [8/31/14]

Videos Show Brutal Treatment of Prisoners with Mental Illness

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

Prayers for People in Solitary Confinement

What It Means to Be Human: A Philosopher’s Argument Against Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary, Analyzing Isolation, Part III

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