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Protest Targets Indiana Youth Facility Accused of Abuse; Forced Labor https://t.co/E7iLSQEq3P

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Mother of Ohio man who died by suicide in solitary confinement in Summit County Jail gets $1M settlement https://t.co/7ycr8IUgyB

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Strip searches at one facility, ‘extreme cold’ at another: Inside Trump’s latest deportation push https://t.co/wYZBFyAbV5 via @elpaisinenglish

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ICE Paperwork Confirms It Force-Fed a Hunger-Striking Detainee — A First for This Administration https://t.co/b64w2ukJx3

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Why California prisons are using their own employees as human fire alarms https://t.co/gMrqdgTDhl "Because the majority of California’s 31 prisons have deficient fire alarm systems and it would cost $1.5 billion to replace them all, according to the department’s annual report,"

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An advocate against solitary confinement says that dialing back reforms on isolation won’t solve violence in California prisons. “We’re not saying that there isn’t a violence problem, we’re just saying that this is not a solution to the violence problem.”

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Hunger strikes are spreading in ICE jails amid widespread due process violations, advocates say https://t.co/X2Kq2LXM77 via @prismreports

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1 in 61 people nationwide are under some form of correctional control — and the vast majority of them are on probation or parole.

Mass punishment in the U.S. is off the charts, even in "progressive" states.

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Groups urge Bexar County (San Antonio) to declare jail deaths a public health emergency https://t.co/DMIvF22zzL via @expressnews

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Trump administration forced treatment on hunger striker in ICE detention https://t.co/a70YfqYxmN ICE report discloses a patient was ‘subject to force feeding, hydration or urinary catheterization’, which experts have described as torture

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Shocking Scale of Trump’s ‘Torture’ Cruelty Exposed by ICE https://t.co/C7af4G76j4 via @thedailybeast "FY2026 detention statistics quietly posted on July 20 lay bare the Trump administration’s failure to follow international human rights law on solitary confinement."

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‘Treated like commodities’: U.S. representatives call for better access to medical care after visit to immigrants at Ohio jail https://t.co/AbsR81ZpAj

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Man dies in solitary confinement at MDC federal jail in Brooklyn; sources suspect OD https://t.co/jz96xpSRQ8

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613 days in solitary confinement, a $150,000 settlement: How one case helped change Virginia prison policy https://t.co/Teqp0nXr2e

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As summer heat continues, is Oregon doing enough for people in solitary confinement? https://t.co/gbZrKjP3BF

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“Ms. Kim was transferred from a women’s prison to a men’s prison due to a routine infraction.”“Today marks two years and two days that Ms. Kim has lived in solitary confinement,” said Adrien Leavitt of the ACLU. https://t.co/ypqqmFjSHP

[Bolts @boltsmag]

California prisoners can now be put in solitary and cut off from communication with family for up to six months following accusations of violence without serious injury, though advocates say this behavior can often be triggered by psychiatric episodes.

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After his sixteenth parole denial, Steven Drown told incarcerated journalist Kevin D. Sawyer that "the board adds new requirements for release each time lifers attend a new hearing. 'What else do I need to do?' he asked." A collab with @solitarywatch https://t.co/yvklOp81fp

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Republican-led House hearing dismisses reports of abuse at Delaney Hall immigrant detention center https://t.co/O6pVQC5X8R

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We Are All Criminals, by @JessPish This post challenging the "good immigrant / bad immigrant" narrative is so important. https://t.co/99iZKJoETI