The Darkest Corner: Special Administrative Measures and Extreme Isolation in the Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Darkest Corner, authored by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School in collaboration with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), documents the imposition of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs), prison regulations that compound the debilitating effects of solitary confinement. The report is based primarily on interviews with over a dozen … Continue reading The Darkest Corner: Special Administrative Measures and Extreme Isolation in the Federal Bureau of Prisons