Skip to content
SW logo
MENU
  • About
    • About Solitary Watch
    • Staff & Advisors
    • Internships & Volunteer Opportunities
    • Support SW
    • Contact
  • Resources
    • Solitary Confinement in the U.S.: The Facts (English, Spanish & French)
    • SW Fact Sheets
    • SW in Other Media Outlets
    • SW Reports: Calculating Torture: 2023 Count of People in Solitary
    • SW Reports: COVID-19 and Solitary
    • SW Reports: Louisiana On Lockdown
    • SW Book: Hell Is A Very Small Place (with Reading Guide)
    • Resources For Action
  • Projects
    • The Ridgeway Reporting Project
    • Lifelines to Solitary
    • Photo Requests From Solitary
  • Subscribe
  • Donate

Solitary Watch

Filters
  • News & Features
  • Voices from Solitary
  • Seven Days in Solitary
  • Projects

As the year ends, we are republishing the following essay by Joseph Stanwick, who spent nearly two decades in solitary confinement in Texas prisons. “I’ve seen men cut on themselves with razor blades, go on hunger strikes for the most absurd reasons, beat on the walls and doors,” he wrote of his experiences there, “because solitary […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: In Memoriam

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Voices from Solitary

December 30, 2016

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/25/2016]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Aviva Stahl

December 25, 2016

News & Features

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

December 22, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “Breathtakingly Irresponsible”

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Voices from Solitary

December 21, 2016

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/18/2016]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Aviva Stahl

December 18, 2016

News & Features

Letters from the Hole

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by James Ridgeway

December 12, 2016

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/11/2016]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Aviva Stahl

December 11, 2016

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/04/2016]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Aviva Stahl

December 4, 2016

Previous
  • 1
  • 1
Next

P.O. Box 11374
Washington, DC 20008

info@solitarywatch.org

Solitary Watch

  • Visit our facebook page
  • Visit our twitter page
  • Visit our instagram page
  • Visit our linkedin page
  • Visit our rss page

© Copyright 2025, Solitary Watch

Read about rights and permissions.

Creative Commons License