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For 13 of his 22 years in prison, Cero Smith spent 23 hours a day alone in a small concrete cell. Three times a day, a corrections officer would pass his meals through a slot in the solid steel cell door. A CO would also take him to exercise alone for one hour in a […]

News & Features

Opening the Door

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by Jean Casella

April 29, 2016

News & Features

Guarding Solitary Confinement

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by Aviva Stahl

April 27, 2016

News & Features

The Human Rights of the Inhumane

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by Carol Schaeffer

April 26, 2016

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/24/2016]

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by Aviva Stahl

April 24, 2016

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/17/2016]

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by Aviva Stahl

April 17, 2016

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In California Death Row’s “Adjustment Center,” Condemned Men Wait in Solitary Confinement

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by Alyssa Stryker

April 13, 2016

Seven Days in Solitary

14 Days in Solitary [4/10/2016]

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by Katie Rose Quandt

April 10, 2016

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Pressure Grows in Canada for Strict Limits on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Federal and Provincial Prisons

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by Garrett Zehr

April 7, 2016

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How the New Settlement Will—and Will Not—Change Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons (Redux)

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by Jean Casella

April 4, 2016

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