KATIE ROSE QUANDT is a senior contributing writer/editor at Solitary Watch and freelance journalist based in the Bronx. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, The Nation, The Guardian, and Mother Jones. She was an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow and Soros Justice Media Fellow. Find her @katierosequandt and at katierosequandt.com. MAEVE BRENNAN served as a research and reporting intern at Solitary Watch. She is a student at Harvard University and editor-in-cheif of the Harvard Crimson Magazine.