July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 Carter Deane As Black Lives Matter Protests Mounted, Federal Prisons Went on Lockdown—and Their Staffs Were Deployed to the Streets
July 17, 2020 Solitary Watch Guest Author “I Hope Our Daughters Will Not Be Punished” From a Solitary Cell in Texas, Kwaneta Yatrice Harris Writes Letters Documenting the Torturous Conditions, Despite the Risk of Retribution
July 7, 2020 Juan Moreno Haines "Man Down:" Left in the Hole at San Quentin During a Coronavirus Crisis An Award-Winning Incarcerated Journalist, Now Infected and Isolated Himself, Reports on the Deadly Contagion at California's Famous Prison
June 23, 2020June 25, 2020 Shabnam Danesh Despite Harsh Lockdowns, Nearly Half of Women in Massachusetts Prisons Caught the Coronavirus Advocates Say Release—Not Solitary Confinement—Is the Right Response
May 5, 2020May 6, 2020 Valerie Kiebala and Katie Rose Quandt As COVID-19 Spreads Through Prisons, Solitary Confinement Is Used to Punish Whistleblowers and Suppress Protests
April 13, 2020 Jean Casella and Katie Rose Quandt Local Jails Were Death Traps Even Before COVID-19. The Pandemic Demands Sweeping—and Permanent—Change.
April 10, 2020April 9, 2020 Jean Casella and Katie Rose Quandt Prisons’ Use of Solitary Confinement Explodes with the COVID-19 Pandemic, While Advocates Push for Alternatives
March 5, 2020May 7, 2020 Solitary Confinement Reporting Project In San Quentin, Getting the Flu Can Land You in Solitary Confinement
February 13, 2020 Brian Sonenstein Even Brief Exposure to Solitary Confinement May Increase Risk of Death After Prison
February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Katie Rose Quandt In Largest Action to Date Against Solitary Confinement, Hundreds Gather in Albany to Push Reform Legislation
January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 Solitary Watch Guest Author For Vulnerable Children, the School Day Can Include Solitary Confinement Resistance Is Growing to the Use of "Seclusion Rooms" for Control and Punishment in Schools—Most Often on Children with Disabilities and Children of Color