US-DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons Program Statement on Inmate Discipline

Effective June 20, 2011

OPI: CPD/CSB
NUMBER: 5270.09

A summary of the use of isolation and its concurrence with mental illness in the Federal BOP

Letter to Gene Dodaro, Comptroller of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), from Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Dated June 6, 2011. In the letter, Rep. Scott requests the GAO report on SHU placement, the costs of maintaining SHU units, and the effects of long-term isolated confinement on the mentally ill

Statistics about the population at ADX, the Federal Supermax Prison in Florence, CO. From 2007

A diagram of messaging for the Stop Solitary Campaign

By the ACLU National Prison Project

A brief description of the major issues surrounding Solitary Confinement

By the ACLU National Prison Project

Campaign Do's and Don'ts

By Sharon Shalev

Mannheim Centre for Criminology

October 2008