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Voices from Solitary: I Spent 16 Months in Solitary Confinement, and Now I’m Fighting to End It

Voices from Solitary
Main entrance to LSP Photo by MSPMoore

The following piece was written by Kiana Calloway, a formerly incarcerated organizer with Voice of the Experienced (VOTE), a grassroots organization in New Orleans made up of formerly incarcerated people and their allies that works for policy change and for full civil and human rights for people impacted by the criminal justice system. He is also […]

Groundbreaking New Report Exposes Impact of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons

Jean Casella
LA Report - Back Cover

UPDATE: More than 50 people attended the press conference on Tuesday, June 25, where representatives of Solitary Watch, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans introduced the report. The words of survey respondents currently in solitary confinement were shared by formerly incarcerated readers Kiana Calloway of Voice […]