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Illinois lawmakers are considering a bill that would limit the use of solitary confinement. This legislation is vital.

Prisoners, advocates and their supporters see the settlement as the first step toward ending solitary confinement.

After mass hunger strikes in 2011 and 2013, California prisoners continue to organize and protest solitary confinement.

Last July, 30,000 California prisoners went on hunger strike. Some have been released from solitary and correctional authorities continue a review process as a class-action lawsuit by prisoners goes …

Families and former prisoners held for years in solitary confinement expressed optimism October 9 after the first of several California Public Safety Committee hearings about the punishment, promised in …

California's mass prison hunger strike ended on Day 60 after two state legislators issued statements of public support for reform of conditions that have had hundreds locked in solitary …

California's prison hunger strike has resulted in several hospitalizations and one death. And now the state may force-feed them.

Paul Redd, former Oakland resident who grew up on the streets of Oakland, is now a resident of Pelican Bay State Prison SHU Dungeon Windowless Cells.

In a letter that illuminates the present hunger strike at Pelican Bay prison, an anonymous correspondent wrote Truthout contributor Victoria Law in 2011 about how California's Department of Corrections …