No End to U.S. Torture
One year ago today, newly inaugurated President Barack Obama signed an executive order outlawing torture. The order was supposed to put an end to the kinds of abuses described by Scott Horton in “The...
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Fortresses of Solitude: Journalists Barred from Prison Isolation Units
The following essay by Solitary Watch’s James Ridgeway appears in the current issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, which also includes an excellent story on the difficulties involved in reporting...
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Federal Supermax Prison “in Violation of International Law”: Amnesty...
Interior of a cell at ADX Florence. Photo from Amnesty International © Private. Many times, on this site and elsewhere, we have referred to supermax prisons and solitary confinement units as “America’s...
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