UPDATE: More than 50 people attended the press conference on Tuesday, June 25, where representatives of Solitary Watch, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans introduced the report. The words of survey respondents currently in solitary confinement were shared by formerly incarcerated readers Kiana Calloway of Voice […]
WASHINGTON, DC, April 9—Solitary Watch today announced the recipients of the first grants awarded by the Solitary Confinement Reporting Project. The new grants program, which is funded by the Vital Projects Fund and administered by Solitary Watch, will fund 14 projects in a variety of media that examine the use of solitary confinement across the U.S. […]
Press Release from the Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Public Library Announces Exhibition of “Photo Requests from Solitary” Shedding Light on the Interior Lives of Men and Women Held in Solitary Confinement Across the U.S. Special Events Feature Solitary Author Albert Woodfox, New Yorker Writer Jelani Cobb, and “The Wire” Actor Michael K. Williams On View April […]
The Solitary Confinement Resource Center is a curated, fully searchable database of media, research, firsthand accounts, court and policy documents, and advocacy tools on the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities. Although some 80,000 people are held in isolation in the United States on any given day, solitary confinement […]