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The following account is one of the many prisoner testimonies that appear in Institutionalized Torture, a recent report issued by the Human Rights Coalition-Fed Up!, a prisoners’ rights group based in Pittsburgh. The report documents abuses at Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Dallas, particularly conditions of confinement within the Restricted Housing Unit. The RHU is SCI-Dallas’s lockdown unit, where […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Life in a Pennsylvania Prison’s “Restricted Housing Unit”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 30, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Oscar Wilde’s Cry from the Depths

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 27, 2010

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Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 22, 2010

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What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 22, 2010

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Court Rules Against Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 22, 2010

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Our Father Who Art in Prison

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by James Ridgeway

June 21, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Ray Luc Levasseur on Life in ADX

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 19, 2010

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Prisoner Sent to Solitary Based on Reading Materials

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 16, 2010

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Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 15, 2010

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No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 15, 2010

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“Extradition to a Future of Total Isolation” Opposed by British Human Rights Lawyer

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 14, 2010

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The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 12, 2010

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Oregon Converts Supermax Unit to Treat Prisoners With Mental Illness

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 4, 2010

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Lessons from Solitary

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

June 3, 2010

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Super-Secretive Supermax Prisons: Last Day to Register Opposition

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 2, 2010

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