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Thomas Silverstein

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    October 6, 2011

    Reader: Solitary confinement not always wrong despite murderer Thomas Silverstein's story

    Alan Prendergast's update on the story of murderer Thomas Silverstein, who's been held in solitary confinement for more than a quarter-century, examines the issue of whether conditions at Colorado's supermax facility are "extreme." A reader with expertise in the field responded with a look at balanc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Thomas Silverstein: Judge rules conditions at supermax not "extreme"

    Federal judges in Denver are of two minds about the kind of punishment doled out at the supermax penitentiary in Florence. While one is allowing a Tanzanian terrorist's complaint about the prison's restrictions on his mail and visitors to proceed to trial, another has thrown out Thomas Silverstein's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Bloody vomit, medical neglect and more in Matt Malloy prison lawsuit filed by DU students

    Matt Mallory​Complaints of substandard health care in the Colorado prison system are nothing new, but a newly filed lawsuit by one inmate, alleging that he was neglected in his cell while vomiting blood for three days, makes for particularly interesting reading. For one thing, Matt Mallory's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Solitary-confinement report conclusions outrage prison activists

    Colorado's supermax is so much fun the state is opening a second one. ​The release of a twelve-month study about the mental effects of solitary confinement at Colorado's supermax is still weeks away. But preliminary results leaked from the report -- which suggest state prisoners suffer little ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Thomas Silverstein: After 26 years in solitary, "Terrible Tommy" wins a round in court

    Thomas Silverstein at Atlanta's penitentiary (inset) in the 1980s and at ADX in 2007.​When you've spent your time since the early days of the Reagan years in a cell smaller than some people's closets, progress tends to get measured in small, small increments rather than sweeping events. But T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    New website shines light on dark corners of the prison system

    What goes on beyond the fence? Solitary Watch wants to know.​Get in serious trouble, go to prison. Get into some bad shit inside prison -- attacking staff, running heroin, or maybe somebody doesn't like your gang tattoo -- and you go to the hole, also known as solitary confinement or (in priso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    Is the death penalty worse than life in the hole?

    Last week, a bill to end the death penalty in Colorado squeaked through the House of Representatives by one vote; it reaches a Senate committee on Wednesday afternoon, April 29. The abolitionists maintain that execution is too costly and time-consuming and that the money could be better spent fund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Thieves, snitches and killers -- oh my! -- in The Best American Crime Reporting 2008

    Last week, a bill to end the death penalty in Colorado squeaked through the House of Representatives by one vote; it reaches a Senate committee on Wednesday afternoon, April 29. The abolitionists maintain that execution is too costly and time-consuming and that the money could be better spent fund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2008

    Kudos for "The Caged Life"

    Last week, a bill to end the death penalty in Colorado squeaked through the House of Representatives by one vote; it reaches a Senate committee on Wednesday afternoon, April 29. The abolitionists maintain that execution is too costly and time-consuming and that the money could be better spent fund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2007

    24 Years of Solitude, Then the Lawsuit

    Last week, a bill to end the death penalty in Colorado squeaked through the House of Representatives by one vote; it reaches a Senate committee on Wednesday afternoon, April 29. The abolitionists maintain that execution is too costly and time-consuming and that the money could be better spent fund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2007

    The Latest Supermax Threat: Elderly British Ladies

    Last week, a bill to end the death penalty in Colorado squeaked through the House of Representatives by one vote; it reaches a Senate committee on Wednesday afternoon, April 29. The abolitionists maintain that execution is too costly and time-consuming and that the money could be better spent fund ... More >>

  • News

    August 16, 2007

    Fortress of Solitude

    The Bureau of Prisons is as good at keeping prisoners in as it is at keeping reporters out.

  • News

    August 16, 2007

    The Caged Life

    Is Thomas Silverstein a prisoner of his own deadly past — or the first in a new wave of locked-down lifers?

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