Torture

President Obama was in charge when Manning spent 11 months in conditions described by the UN as cruel and inhumane and when those conditions were changed due to public …

Todayu2019s crises u2013 endless war, environmental catastrophe, desperate poverty and more u2013 can seem so daunting that they paralyze action rather than inspire activism. But the imperative to do …

It's estimated that more than half of America's foster children are on some sort of psychiatric drug. A practice one doctor calls u201cinstitutionalized child abuse.

Eric Holder's promise to not torture Edward Snowden is driven by a vague definition of the idea of torture in the post 9/11 era.

On July 8, more than 30,000 prisoners in California refused meals in the third such strike in two years. Prisoners in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, some …

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 …

J. Baridi Williamson: We strike for freedom, justice and humyn rights against prolonged isolation and torture in US-California solitary confinement prisons, facilities, units, cell dungeons across this nation's mass …

‘One of the worst challenges I have faced is witnessing so many other SHU prisoners lose their minds.’

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 …

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 …