September 2012 - Solitary Watch

The latest four-page Solitary Watch Print Edition includes a report from June’s historic Senate hearing on solitary confinement, a powerful essay by prisoner Enceno Macy, and news briefs from around the country. The print editions is available for download as a PDF file, below. (For PDFs earlier editions, click here.) <Solitary Watch Print Edition: Fall 2012> Hard copies […]

Announcements

New Solitary Watch Print Edition, Free to Prisoners and Advocates

Amnesty International Releases Report Condemning California Prison Isolation Units

New Report Calls for End to Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention

The Other Death Sentence: Aging and Dying in Prison

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

Solitary Policies in California Revised, As Prisoner Leaders Promote End to Racial Hostilities

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hear Testimony on the Torture of Solitary Confinement

New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard

Scientists Discover How Social Isolation Damages Young Brains

Mumia Abu-Jamal Challenges Death Row Solitary Confinement and Life Without Parole

Portrait of a Prison Whistleblower—and His Punishment

Pennsylvania Legislators to Hold Hearing on Solitary Confinement

“Total Isolation”: Solitary Confinement in Oregon

Tamms Supermax Prison Closure Temporarily Halted

Voices from Solitary: A Man’s Strength Behind a Steel Door

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Solitary Confinement: New York’s Hidden Problem

Texas Hearing Finds Prisoners Released from Solitary Directly to the Streets

Voices from Solitary: A Spark in the Dark