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The following essay is by William Blake. In 1987, Blake, then 23 and in county court on a drug charge, grabbed a gun from a sheriff’s deputy in a failed escape attempt, murdering one deputy and wounding another. He was sentenced to 77 years to life. The New York State prison system, classifying him as […]

Voices from Solitary

administrative segregation

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

Voices from Solitary: My Darkest Night in Solitary Gave Me the Strength to Fight Back

Invisible Chains

Voices from Solitary: A Struggle Just to Be Myself

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

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

Opening the Door

Inside the Hole: Enduring Solitary Confinement in California

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

Voices from Solitary: Isolated for Having a “Gang” Calendar

Voices from Solitary: Surviving the “Prison Within a Prison”

Voices from Solitary: What Solitary Confinement Does to the Mind

Voices from Solitary: Your Imagination, But My Reality

Voices from Solitary, Analyzing Isolation, Part II

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

Voices from Solitary: The Life of an Escape Artist

Voices from Solitary: A Second-by-Second Attack on Your Soul

Voices From Solitary: What Decades of Isolation Do to the Mind and Body

Voices From Solitary: Resurrection

Voices from Solitary: A Concrete Death

“Ready to Return to Humanity” After 34 Years in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: What My Mother Doesn’t Know

Voices From Solitary: Among the Blood of Last Year’s June

Seven Days in Solitary [4.12.13]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/2/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/29/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/15/17]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/15/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/24/18]