News & Commentary about Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Conditions


Mar 6, 2013
ACLU, in Geneva, Advocates Against Death Penalty, Solitary Confinement

Feb 28, 2013
For Kids With Parents Behind Bars, The Work of Black History Month Is Incomplete

Feb 14, 2013
Three Questions Senator Durbin and the DOJ Need to Ask about Federal Solitary

Feb 13, 2013
New York Prisons: A Human Rights Crisis in Our Own Backyard

Jan 28, 2013
If You Thought 鈥淭he Game鈥 Was Terrifying, Consider the 鈥淗ole鈥 Where Michael Douglas鈥 Son is Currently Locked Alone

Jan 16, 2013
In California, an End to the Absolutely Devastating Practice of Locking Kids in Isolation in Juvenile Facilities May Be In Sight

Jan 9, 2013
A Misguided Ruling in the WikiLeaks Case: 23 Hours a Day Alone in a Cell is Always Solitary Confinement

Jan 4, 2013
Refusing to Disappear: Prisoners at Tamms and their Families Conducted a Sustained Advocacy Campaign to Shut this "Supermax" Down

Jan 4, 2013
Tamms "Supermax" Prison, with its Inhumane and Ridiculously Expensive Solitary Confinement Practices, is Officially a Thing of the Past!