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Voices from Solitary: A Lose-Lose Situation
The following was written by Pelican Bay SHU inmate Paul Sangu Jones. Jones has been incarcerated since 1969, when he was 20 years old. Sentenced 7-years-to-life, he has been in the SHU since 1988, a … more →
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Voices from Solitary: A Lose-Lose Situation
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wrote 1 week ago: The following was written by Pelican Bay SHU inmate Paul Sangu Jones. Jones has been incarcerated si … more →
Inmates in Solitary Confinement in California Respond to Prison Policy Reforms
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wrote 1 month ago: Prisoners in California’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) have offered their opinions of the recen … more →
Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3
wrote 1 month ago: Today marks 40 years in solitary confinement for Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox. Our article on t … more →
Connecticut Votes to Replace the Death Penalty with Life in Solitary Confinement
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wrote 1 month ago: Late yesterday, the Connecticut Assembly passed legislation to bring an end to the state’s fut … more →
40 Years in Solitary: New BBC Program on the Angola 3 Case
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wrote 1 month ago: This month marks 40 years in solitary confinement for Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, the two mem … more →
New Federal Budget: Plenty of Money for Prisons
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wrote 3 months ago: The following article originally appeared on MotherJones.com. President Obama’s budget request … more →
New York State Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement Reforms, Spike in Prison Suicide Rate
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wrote 5 months ago: A week ago today (while Solitary Watch was traveling), advocates for prisoners with mental illness g … more →
Beyond Guantánamo, There's Long-Term Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons
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wrote 5 months ago: While it never uses the term “solitary confinement,” the front-page story in yesterday … more →
City to Sharply Increase Solitary Confinement on Rikers Island
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wrote 6 months ago: Over the past year, the New York City Department of Corrections (NYCDOC) has quietly implemented a m … more →
New Study: Solitary Confinement Overused in Colorado
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wrote 6 months ago: A new report on solitary confinement in Colorado’s state prisons concluded that there are far … more →
New Video: Charlie and Pauline Sullivan of C.U.R.E.
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wrote 7 months ago: CURE–Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants–is an international organization … more →
Roundup of Testimony from California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement
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wrote 8 months ago: Today, some inmates in the Security Housing Units (SHUs) at Pelican Bay and Calipatria State Prisons … more →
NYC Bar Association Issues Report on "The Brutality of Supermax Confinement"
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wrote 8 months ago: The New York City Bar Association’s Committee on International Human Rights has turned its sig … more →
What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime
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wrote 8 months ago: Long before the War on Terror, there was the War on Crime. And as much as 9/11 was a watershed event … more →
Locked Up and Left Behind: Hurricane Irene and the Prisoners on New York's Rikers Island (via Solitary Watch)
wrote 9 months ago: This is un-fucking-believeable. “We are not evacuating Rikers Island,” Mayor Michael Blo … more →
Locked Up and Left Behind: New York's Prisoners and Hurricane Irene (via Solitary Watch)
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wrote 9 months ago: Oh good, the Prison-Industrial Complex and those in power are fucking over the under served. Surpris … more →
Locked Up and Left Behind: Hurricane Irene and the Prisoners on New York's Rikers Island
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wrote 9 months ago: “We are not evacuating Rikers Island,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news conference … more →
Historic California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement
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wrote 9 months ago: In response to the statewide prison hunger strike in July, the Public Safety Committee of the Califo … more →
Washington Post Takes a Stand Against the "Invisible Brutality That Is Solitary Confinement"
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wrote 9 months ago: An editorial in Sunday’s Washington Post decries widespread use of solitary confinement in U.S … more →
