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13th Amendment

New this week from Solitary Watch: In the most recent Voices from Solitary piece, Rodney Reid, who spent half of his 22 years of incarceration in solitary confinement, reflects on nearly three years in solitary on Rikers Island. His piece examines how isolation worsened the already “depleting, dehumanizing, and beyond deplorable” experience of being incarcerated […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Punished for Disabilities: Minnesota Schoolchildren Held in Isolation…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Sheila Hodges

March 4, 2026

News & Features Ridgeway Reporting Project

Alabama Voters Banned Prison Slavery—But Prisoners Say It Hasn’t Stopped

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by Shaun Traywick

June 20, 2025

News & Features

Juneteenth to an Incarcerated American 

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by Juan Moreno Haines

June 19, 2025

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/2/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

December 2, 2019

News & Features

Prisons Use Solitary Confinement to Silence Strikers Nationwide—But Their Voices Have Been Heard

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by Valerie Kiebala and Jean Casella

October 1, 2018

News & Features

The Use of Isolation in U.S. Prisons: A Human Rights Issue

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

August 8, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “What Prisoners Have…”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

July 4, 2010

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