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This following account was written by Anthony Lamar Davis, 34, who has been incarcerated for 11 years of a 22-year sentence. He has spent more than six of those years in solitary confinement. In New York State prisons, about 13,000 sentences to solitary confinement in the Special Housing Units, or SHUs, are handed out each year, most […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: At War With My Own Self

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by Voices from Solitary

September 30, 2014

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [9/28/2014]

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by Aviva Stahl

September 28, 2014

Voices from Solitary

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

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by Voices from Solitary

September 26, 2014

News & Features

Reports Condemn Healthcare and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons

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by Lisa Dawson

September 22, 2014

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [9/21/2014]

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by Aviva Stahl

September 21, 2014

News & Features

American Experts Urge British Not to Believe What They Hear About US Prison Conditions

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by Aviva Stahl

September 16, 2014

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [9/14/2014]

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by Aviva Stahl

September 14, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Dare to Think

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by Voices from Solitary

September 13, 2014

News & Features

UPDATED: From One North Carolina Prison, Reports of an Eight-Month Lockdown

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by Lisa Dawson

September 11, 2014

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [9/07/2014]

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by Aviva Stahl

September 7, 2014

News & Features

News from the Hole: The Words of People in Solitary Confinement in America’s Prisons

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by James Ridgeway

September 4, 2014

Voices from Solitary

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

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by Voices from Solitary

September 2, 2014

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