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New Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil
Panelists at the No Separate Justice launch at Judson Memorial Church. Photo: Liliana Segura. This past weekend, activists across the country and around the world marked the 12th anniversary of the...
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Voices from Solitary: Hunger Strike in Menard Prison
A little over a year ago, the notorious Tamms Correctional Center was closed, after a long battle by activists and with the support of Governor Pat Quinn. Individuals were rehoused in prisons across...
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Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil
A solitary confinement cell at ADX federal supermax, which one warden called “a clean version of hell.” Tomorrow at 6 pm, activists with the No Separate Justice campaign will gather at Lower...
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At Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons, Advocates Challenge...
Demonstrators gather at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Tuesday. Photo by Pete Brook. “We’re here to question the existence and effects of the SHU,” stated California Assembly Member Tom Ammiano on...
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Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part I
This post is the first in a series of pieces Solitary Watch will be publishing for a new project calling for people held in solitary confinement to write on various proposed themes. For these pieces,...
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Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons
A cell in a New York State “Special Housing Unit.” Under pressure from a lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three people held in long-term solitary confinement, New York...
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ADX H-Unit on Hunger Strike, Prisoners Being Force-Fed
According to reports this morning from inside the U.S. Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, CO, eight to nine people held in the super-secret H-Unit are on hunger strike and...
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Torture on Death Row: Court Rules Against Automatic Use of Solitary...
Cell on Texas death row. The Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty itself does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.” Yet the treatment of the condemned is nonetheless subject to...
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Voices from Solitary, Analyzing Isolation, Part II
This post is the next in a series of pieces Solitary Watch is publishing as part of a project calling for people held in solitary confinement to write on various proposed themes. Our second suggested...
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Voices from Solitary: Testimony of a Jailhouse Lawyer
Ty Evans is serving time in Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana for attempted murder. There, he became a self-taught legal advocate for other incarcerated men—a “jailhouse lawyer.” There is no...
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After 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Will the Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Be...
Albert Woodfox in 2012. Louisiana’s Attorney General has called Woodfox the “most dangerous man on the planet.” In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...
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Solitary Not Yet Over at Rikers, But Advocates Keep Fighting
This story originally appeared on Waging Nonviolence. Members of the Jails Action Coalition after the New York City Board of Correction hearing on January 13. (Photo: WNV/Nick Malinowski) A group of...
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Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”
ADX Florence in Colorado, where more than 400 men are held in extreme isolation. The New York Times Magazine feature story on the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum, or ADX, in Florence,...
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At Ohio’s Supermax Prison, a Hunger Strike Ends But Extreme Isolation Remains
Last week, men incarcerated at Ohio’s supermax prison, the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown, brought a month-long hunger strike to a close. Between 30 and 40 men had refused all meals since March...
View ArticlePennsylvania Law Aimed at Silencing People Convicted of Crimes Is Declared...
On Tuesday, a federal judge struck down a Pennsylvania law that had the potential to severely curtail free speech for people convicted of crimes. The Revictimization Relief Act, enacted last fall, was...
View ArticleVoices from Solitary: American Supermax
Joseph Dole is serving a life without parole sentence for a conviction that he continues to fight pro se. He was confined in Tamms Supermax Prison for a full decade, from 2002 through 2012, when a...
View ArticleVoices from Solitary: Life in H-Unit, ADX Federal Supermax
The excerpts that follow come from a declaration by Mahmud Abouhalima, who was convicted of taking part in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center (a charge he still denies). Sentenced to 240 years,...
View ArticleFederal Bureau of Prisons Details Plans for Limited “Audit” of Solitary...
Last week, representatives of six nonprofit organizations critical of solitary confinement met in a closed-door meeting in Washington, D.C., with the team hired to conduct an internal audit of the...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [1/12/13]
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. • The National Catholic...
View ArticleNew Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil
This past weekend, activists across the country and around the world marked the 12th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners to the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Detainees...
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