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New this week from Solitary Watch: The Alabama Solution, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2025, has been nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary. The film, which highlights the “horrifying realities of life inside Alabama’s prisons,” was made possible by incarcerated activists who documented the terrible conditions from inside prison using […]

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Death of ICE Detainee Restrained by Guards Is Ruled a Homicide…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

After Exposing Prison Horrors for an Oscar-Nominated Film, Incarcerated Whistleblowers Are Moved to Solitary

Horrific Abuse in New York’s Prisons Predates Law Limiting Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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

Juneteenth to an Incarcerated American

New High-Security Unit on Rikers May Violate Solitary Confinement Law…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Pregnant Women in Prison Face Abuse and Isolation…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Texas Prisons Are “Hell on Earth”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New York City Council Moves to Ban Solitary on Rikers…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

The Conservative Case Against Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Victims of Sexual Assaults by Prison Staff Are Thrown in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

What It’s Like to Be in Solitary If You Can’t Read…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

When Suicide Watch Becomes a Death Sentence…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Man Freezes to Death in Alabama Jail…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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