Prisons

Marie Levin, sister to Ronnie Dewberry, a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement, describes how he was not allowed to donate a kidney …

Producer Claire Schoen meets with nine formerly incarcerated persons about their experiences in solitary confinement.

Paul Redd, a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement, was sent to the SHU for political organizing. He talks about being cut off …

Attorney Michael Ratner on the 30,000 California prisoners on hunger-strike and their solidarity with prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to the occupied territories of Palestine.

‘Sadly, this institution wants to break as many ties and bonds to family and community as it can,’ writes Danny Troxell.

Suffering from severe medical problems, 71-year-old George Ruiz is challenging long-term solitary confinement.

Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit (SHU) are isolated for at least twenty-two and a half hours a day in cramped, concrete, windowless cells. They are …

When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister's residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at …

Luis Esquivel: 'We want an opportunity to be able to live again, have a visit with our loved ones, give them a hug, shake their hand, like a human …

Todd Ashker describes how solitary confinement at Pelican Bay prison deprived him of any relationship with his mother.