Torture

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 …

‘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.

At his confirmation hearing to head the FBI, former Bush administration Deputy Attorney General James Comey refused to criticize the broad, ongoing collection of the phone records of Americans …

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

We constantly fail to acknowledge the atrocities of war , street violence, and human rights abuses that our own government is committing.

Working with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Truthout offers a series of profiles of prisoners on hunger strike at Pelican Bay.

A prisoner on hunger strike in California shares his story of years spent in isolation.

Everyone charged with a crime under US law is to be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. But June pre-trial hearings in the cases of five men charged …

Edward Bernays warned that an enduring threat to the invisible government was the truth teller.