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The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?
“One of six monkeys isolated for three months refused to eat after release and died five days later.” After several weeks in the company of other monkeys, most of them adjusted—but not those who had been isolated for longer periods. “Twelve months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially,” Harlow wrote. They became permanently withdrawn, and they lived as outcasts—regularly set upon, as if inviting abuse.
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February 11th, 2014: Support The Prisoner-Led Movement To End Long Term Solitary Confinement
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Opening the Box: Sarah Shourd on Herman Wallace, California Hunger Strikers and the Horror of Solitary Confinement
Last month, we were devastated to learn that the Angola 3’s Herman Wallace had been diagnosed with liver cancer, and that he was continuing to be held in isolation in a locked room at Hunt Correctional Center’s prison infirmary. Reflecting on … Continue reading
No Place For Children
Please sign (and share!) the petition on change.org
Posted in Activism, Confined Kids, Insanity, Mental Health, Public Safety, Sensory Deprivation, SHU, Super-Max, Surviving Solitary, Torture, Torture for $$$
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California Prisoners Launch New Hunger Strike to Protest Solitary Confinement
Solitary Watch – “Hundreds of people held in California prisons are expected to launch their third large-scale hunger strike in two years today. The current strike, announced by leaders at Pelican Bay State Prison on February 14th, is seen as a resumption … Continue reading
Posted in ACLU, Activism, California, Control Unit, Hunger Strike, Pelican Bay, Political Prisoners, Sensory Deprivation, SHU, Solitary Confinement, Solitary Watch, Super-Max, Torture for $$$
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National advocates for ending torture in U.S. prisons available for interview
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 3, 2013 CONTACT: Samantha Friedman, Rabinowitz/Dorf Communications Office: (202) 265-3000; Cell: (202) 215-9260; samantha@rabinowitz-dorf.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – In advance of the third prisoner hunger strike in California’s Pelican Bay, Corcoran and Tehachapi Security Housing Units, scheduled to begin Monday, July 8, Director … Continue reading
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Petition | California State Assembly: Pass SB 61 to Limit Solitary Confinement of Youth in California | Change.org
Dear Friends, We urge you to take a moment for California’s youth. One final hurdle remains for passage of Senate Bill 61, a bill to limit the harmful practice of placing young people in solitary confinement in California. Your support … Continue reading
Spirituality In Dark Places
Spirituality in Dark Places explores the spiritual consequences and ethics of modern solitary confinement. Jeffreys emphasizes how solitary confinement damages our spiritual lives, focusing particularly on how it destroys our relationship to time and undermines our creativity. Solitary inmates experience … Continue reading
Rally Monday to end solitary confinement in NYC Jails
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Sacramento hearing exposes CDCR’s hidden agenda on Solitary Confinement
By Denise Mewbourne San Francisco Bay View Almost two years later, the ripple effect of the 2011 hunger strike organized by the Short Corridor Collective in Pelican Bay prison continues to reverberate throughout California. In protest of solitary confinement torture in … Continue reading
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Strategizing to Defeat Control Unit Prisons and Solitary Confinement –An interview with author/activist Nancy Kurshan
Via Activist Post Author and longtime activist Nancy Kurshan’s new book, entitled Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons, has just been released by the Freedom Archives. Kurshan’s book documents the work of The Committee to End … Continue reading
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A Solitary Torture 