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The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • Lance Tapley of The Portland Phoenix provides readers with a look inside Maine State Prison’s Special Management Unit, which he describes as “a physical manifestation of the banality of […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Torture

Seven Days in Solitary [11/10/13]

New Report Criticizes Use of Solitary Confinement in New Mexico Prisons and Jails

Seven Days in Solitary [11/3/13]

Voices from Solitary: Solitary Confinement’s Invisible Scars

Seven Days in Solitary [10/27/13]

One Month After Historic Hunger Strike, California Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [10/6/13]

After 41 Years in Solitary, a Dying Herman Wallace Has His Conviction Overturned—-and Is Freed

Federal Appeals Court Considers Tommy Silverstein’s 30 Years in Extreme Solitary Confinement

A Month in Solitary [8/31/13]

UN: Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Can Be Torture, Force-Feeding Unacceptable

California Prison Hunger Strikers to Be Force-Fed

The Use of Isolation in U.S. Prisons: A Human Rights Issue

Suicide of California Hunger Strike Participant Draws National Attention to a Broken System

Why Holder’s Pledge That Snowden “Will Not Be Tortured” Is a Lie

Seven Days in Solitary [7/28/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/21/13]

Voices from Solitary: American Supermax

We Are One Body: Catholics Raise Voices Against Solitary Confinement

As 30,000 Join California Prison Hunger Strike, Corrections Officials Issue Guidelines on Starvation

Angola 3’s Herman Wallace, Gravely Ill, Still Held in Isolation

Solitary Watch Print Edition

Seven Days in Solitary [6/16/13]

Records Show Excessive Use of Force at Colorado Supermax

Suicide in Solitary: A Mother Remembers Her Son

U.S. DOJ Documents Torturous Treatment in Pennsylvania Solitary Confinement Unit

Seven Days in Solitary [6/9/13]

Voices from Solitary: The Loneliest Place in the World

Seven Days in Solitary [6/2/13]