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Original Reporting, Commentary, and News from a Nation on Lockdown

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Long-Awaited Prison Census Shows More Than 75,000 People in Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and Vaidya Gullapalli

June 16, 2022

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UPDATE: Advocates Respond to New Executive Order, Urge Biden to Take Far Bolder Steps to End Federal Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella

June 6, 2022

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The Word: The “Voiceless” Do Have Voices. Are We Listening?

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by Jean Casella

May 31, 2022

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The Word: The Myth of Safety Through Punishment

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by Vaidya Gullapalli

April 29, 2022

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New Executive Order Includes Solitary Confinement Reforms, but Falls Short of Biden’s Campaign Promise 

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by Jean Casella

May 25, 2022

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Incarcerated People of Color with Mental Illness Get Less Treatment and More Solitary Confinement

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by Melat Eskender

April 22, 2022

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Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention Is a Grim Reality—and Only Likely to Get Worse

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by Abram Wolfe

July 30, 2019

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Written Through the Prison Wall, Play Reveals One Woman’s Experience of Solitary Confinement

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by Vaidya Gullapalli

May 17, 2016

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Will Revamped Prison Regulations Reduce Solitary Confinement in California?

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by Sal Rodriguez

June 30, 2015

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American Outcasts: U.S. Prisons and Modern Day Banishment

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by James Ridgeway

April 24, 2015

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Pope Francis Denounces Solitary Confinement, Calls for Prison Conditions That “Respect Human Dignity”

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by Jean Casella

October 26, 2014

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New Solitary Watch Print Edition

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 8, 2013

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Prisoner at Corcoran State Prison Commits Suicide in Solitary

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by Sal Rodriguez

October 19, 2012

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Solitary Confinement in Great Britain: Still Harsh, But Rare

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by Elisa Mosler

January 19, 2012

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Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 30, 2011

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Maine Prison Whistleblower Exiled and Isolated

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 3, 2011

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A Suspicious (and Lonely) Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

March 19, 2010

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Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 20, 2010

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ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 17, 2010

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A Lonely–and Preventable–Death in a Vermont Prison

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

January 4, 2010

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James Ridgeway, 1936–2021

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by Jean Casella

February 17, 2021

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Off the Block

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by Jean Casella

October 21, 2015

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How Britain Does Supermax

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by Aviva Stahl

October 21, 2015

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Opening the Door

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by Jean Casella

April 29, 2016

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“This Is a Public Safety Approach”: Solitary Confinement Reform Begins in Idaho

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by Aviva Stahl

May 31, 2016

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Chicago Jail’s Quest to End Solitary Confinement Is a Work in Progress

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by Valerie Kiebala

January 6, 2020

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