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Ridgeway Reporting Project

Investigative reporting by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated journalists in publications nationwide, supported by Solitary Watch and the Vital Projects Fund (previously called the Solitary Confinement Reporting Project)

News & Features Ridgeway Reporting Project

Ending the “Last Vestiges of Slavery” in New York

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by Nicholas Brooks

May 2, 2025

News & Features Ridgeway Reporting Project

I Was an Incarcerated Nursing Assistant During Covid. This Is What I Saw.

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by Abraham Santiago

March 20, 2025

News & Features Ridgeway Reporting Project

Stripped Rights

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by Elizabeth Hawes

October 29, 2024

News & Features Ridgeway Reporting Project

In Texas Prisons, People with Mental Illness Are Held in Tiny Cages for Days on End

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by Jeremy Busby

October 21, 2024

News & Features Ridgeway Reporting Project

How New York’s Maximum-Security Women’s Prison Has Failed to HALT Solitary Confinement

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by Sara Kielly

September 26, 2024

News & Features Ridgeway Reporting Project

Washington State Prisons Suppress Cultural Awareness Groups

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by Felix Sitthivong

August 5, 2024

News & Features Ridgeway Reporting Project

The Hell Inside Hell: Solitary Confinement in Texas Hides the Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls

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by Kwaneta Harris

June 3, 2024

Projects Ridgeway Reporting Project

Ridgeway Reporting Project Awards Grants to Incarcerated Journalists to Report on U.S. Prison Conditions

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by Jean Casella

June 22, 2023

Projects Ridgeway Reporting Project

Ridgeway Reporting Project Offers Grants to Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Journalists

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by Jean Casella

November 1, 2022

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Inside the Underground Economy of Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

February 24, 2022

Ridgeway Reporting Project

In New York, Few Resources for Solitary Confinement Survivors After Prison

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

February 8, 2021

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Immigrant Detainees Went on Hunger Strike Against Intolerable Conditions and COVID Exposure. ICE Punished Them with Solitary Confinement.

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

January 28, 2021

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Incarcerated Women Are Punished for Their Trauma With Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

December 24, 2020

Ridgeway Reporting Project

At San Quentin Prison, Men Ravaged by Covid-19 and Decades of Incarceration Hold an Election of Their Own

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by Juan Moreno Haines and Kevin Deroi Sawyer

November 2, 2020

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Digging Our Way Out of the Hole: Keeping Prisons Safe Without Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

October 14, 2020

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Inside the Hole: Enduring Solitary Confinement in California

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

September 2, 2020

Ridgeway Reporting Project

How to Survive Supermax

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

June 20, 2020

Ridgeway Reporting Project

In San Quentin, Getting the Flu Can Land You in Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

March 5, 2020

Ridgeway Reporting Project

14 Journalists Awarded Grants from the Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

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by Jean Casella

April 9, 2019

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Deadline Extended to FEBRUARY 7: Grants Available to Journalists for Reporting on Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

January 28, 2019

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Grants Available to Journalists for Reporting on Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

December 5, 2018

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