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Feds to Open New Supermax Prison Cells at “Gitmo North”
Even as it announces a review and reduction of its solitary confinement practices, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons confirmed to Solitary Watch that a newly acquired prison ln Illinois will hold federal...
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Pat Nolan’s Evangelical Prison Reform
Pat Nolan, Vice President at Prison Fellowship When it comes to Washington politics, a handful of congressman lead the way in shaping prison reform. At the forefront of this movement are John...
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Seven Days in Solitary [11/10/13]
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...
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Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison
Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, IL (Photo: suntimes.com) Even as it touts new initiatives to reduce the number of people it holds in solitary confinement, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)...
View ArticleWhere the Democratic Presidential Candidates Stand on Solitary
In July 2015, when President Barack Obama mentioned concerns about the use of solitary confinement, he broke more than 220 years of presidential silence on the issue. And a few months later, in...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [5/10/21]
• Ian Manuel was sentenced to life without parole for a crime committed at age 13, and spent nearly two decades in solitary confinement. Freed five years ago through the efforts of Bryan Stevenson and...
View ArticleWhere the Democratic Presidential Candidates Stand on Solitary
In July 2015, when President Barack Obama mentioned concerns about the use of solitary confinement, he broke more than 220 years of presidential silence on the issue. And a few months later, in...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [5/10/21]
• Ian Manuel was sentenced to life without parole for a crime committed at age 13, and spent nearly two decades in solitary confinement. Freed five years ago through the efforts of Bryan Stevenson and...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [2/16/22]
• The New York Times reports that in Texas, a lawsuit filed by Dennis Hope asking for relief from his prolonged isolation is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Hope, who is represented by the...
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• An editorial in Tuesday’s Washington Post carries the headline: “Solitary confinement is torture. U.S. prisons should stop using it.” Citing solitary’s devastating psychological harms, the piece...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [10/5/22]
New this week from Solitary Watch: • In an essay in our Voices from Solitary series, Cesar Villa offers a searing account of living in prolonged solitary confinement in a Security Housing Unit, or...
View ArticleNo Decrease in Solitary Use in Federal Prisons…and Other News on Solitary...
New this week from Solitary Watch: A new article originally published in Truthout, by Solitary Watch contributor Victoria Law, examines the impact of recent judicial and legislative decisions in...
View ArticleProtests Against Long-Term Solitary Continue in Virginia…And Other News on...
This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: Approximately 55 percent of incarcerated people in solitary confinement in Virginia have been there for more than 15 days. Whether...
View ArticleNew Study Finds ICE Locks Thousands of Immigrants in Solitary…And Other News...
This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: A new study by Harvard-affiliated researchers and the nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights found that Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleReport Shows Hundreds of Preventable Deaths in Federal Prisons…and Other News...
This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: In a recent report, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General found that the Federal Bureau of Prisons...
View ArticleFederal Prisons Under Fire From Watchdogs Over Solitary, Suicides…and Other...
This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is being called “an agency in crisis” after a series of recent reports by government watchdogs....
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