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Voices from Solitary

Dispatches from People Surviving the Lived Experience of Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary

America’s Most Isolated Federal Prisoner Describes 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

May 5, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: In Solitary Confinement at Age 17 and Fighting for My Sanity

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by Voices from Solitary

November 7, 2022

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Living in a California SHU

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by Voices from Solitary

September 30, 2022

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Prison Lockdowns and the Forgotten COVID Casualties

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by Voices from Solitary

September 19, 2022

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Voices from Solitary: Books Are a Spark in the Dark

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by Voices from Solitary

September 6, 2022

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Voices from Solitary: “As Real As It Honestly and Truthfully Gets”

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by Voices from Solitary

August 12, 2022

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Voices from Solitary: Head Cases

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by Voices from Solitary

April 30, 2014

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Voices From Solitary: Solitary Poems

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by Voices from Solitary

June 23, 2022

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Voices from Solitary: Holler with Haiku

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by Voices from Solitary

June 9, 2022

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Voices from Solitary: “Loneliness Is a Destroyer of Humanity”

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by Voices from Solitary

July 7, 2012

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Voices from Solitary: Living on Deathwatch

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May 16, 2022

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Voices From Solitary: Positive Delusions

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by Voices from Solitary

May 11, 2022

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Voices from Solitary: An Open Letter from the Allegheny County Jail

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by Voices from Solitary

April 27, 2022

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: In My Demise (25 Years and Counting)

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by Voices from Solitary

March 21, 2019

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Voices from Solitary: Death Would Feel So Much Better

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by Voices from Solitary

January 23, 2019

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part II

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by Voices from Solitary

February 24, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “It Has Zapped Me Of My Personality”

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by Voices from Solitary

October 21, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Walla Walla IMU

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

August 28, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Coyote Calling

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 24, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Ara Oshagan Photographs California Juvies

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 4, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Charles P. Norman on “The Insanity of Solitary Confinement”

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by James Ridgeway

February 23, 2010

Voices from Solitary

AFSC Seeks Stories of Isolation and Torture in U.S. Prisons

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 4, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: New Memoir by Wilbert Rideau

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

May 6, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

May 19, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Ray Luc Levasseur on Life in ADX

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 19, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Oscar Wilde’s Cry from the Depths

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 27, 2010

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