February 2014 - Solitary Watch

The following post is a chapter from an unpublished book by Mary Buser, who worked in various capacities in the mental health system on Rikers Island. In Buser’s own words: “I worked in the Rikers Mental Health Department as a psychiatric social worker for five and a half years, leaving Rikers in 2000. I started off as a student intern […]

News & Features

Doing “Bing Time”: Memories of a Mental Health Worker in Rikers Island’s Solitary Confinement Unit

ADX H-Unit on Hunger Strike, Prisoners Being Force-Fed

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part II

Seven Days in Solitary [2/23/14]

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part I

Seven Days in Solitary [2/16/14]

At Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons, Advocates Challenge “Reforms”

Seven Months After Historic Prison Hunger Strike, Opponents of Solitary in California Gauge the Pace of Change

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/14]

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

Voices from Solitary: Hunger Strike in Menard Prison

New York Lawmakers Introduce Bill to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [2/2/14]

Voices from Solitary: Walk With Me — Life on the Inside of the SMU at USP Lewisburg

Prison Health Care: Is the American Health Profession Ignoring a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight?