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Thomas Bartlett Whitaker is a contributor and editor for Minutes Before Six, an online journal for incarcerated writers. His work has won multiple awards from PEN America, appearing also in Guernica, Solitary Watch, and the anthology Hell Is a Very Small Place. Whitaker spent more than a decade on death row in Texas before Governor […]

Voices from Solitary

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Voices from Solitary: The Lord of Table Six’s New Clothes

The Weight of Watching: How Prisons Turn Traumatized Women Into Unpaid Crisis Workers

When Isolation Became the Supreme Punishment

Remembering Black August from Prison: The Struggle Continues

ICE Detainees Deported to El Salvador Report Dark Isolation Cells, Beatings, and Rape… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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: Among the Blood of Last Year’s June

Voices from Solitary: What My Mother Doesn’t Know

Seven Days in Solitary [10/13/21]

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

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

Seven Days in Solitary [1/4/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/28/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/30/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/23/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/7/20]

Inside the Hole: Enduring Solitary Confinement in California

Fourteen Days in Solitary [8/24/20]

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/6/20]

Fourteen Days in Solitary [6/8/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/18/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/11/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/16/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/24/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/10/20]