August 2010 - Solitary Watch

Robert Longworth was awarded First Place in memoir in the PEN American Center’s 2010 Prison Writing Contest, for his piece about life in solitary confinement in the Intensive Management Unit, or IMU, at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. Longworth provides this biography on the PEN website: “I am a forty-five year old state-raised prisoner. And, […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Walla Walla IMU

“I Spent 29 Years in Solitary Confinement”

Down Time for Solitary Watch

“Outsourcing Punishment” and the Privatization of Justice

Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical Ethics”

Obama’s First Military Tribunal: Child Soldier Tortured at Bagram and Gitmo

Voices from Solitary: Life on Level 3, Texas Death Row

Voices from Solitary: Gang “Validation” and Permanent Isolation in California Prisons

“Epidemic” of Suicides in Massachusetts Prisons

Ridgeway on America’s Solitary Confinement Nightmare

Pennsylvania Legislators Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Federal Judge: Extended Solitary Confinement Causes “Lasting Psychological Damage and Emotional Harm”

Due Process Rights Routinely Suppressed in California Prisons

Another Suspicious Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Private Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots

Voices from Solitary: Supermaxed Out in Colorado

“Never in the Civilised World Have So Many Been Locked Up for So Little”