Alabama Department of Corrections Archives

Alabama Department of Corrections

This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: A lengthy feature in the New York Times explores how prisons and jails across the United States have become the nation’s largest providers of inpatient mental health treatment. It’s estimated that 200,000 to 300,000 currently incarcerated people have a serious mental illness, which is ten […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Alabama Department of Corrections

The Deadly Consequences of Mental Illness in Prison…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/2022]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/22/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/28/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/13/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/29/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/8/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/25/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/4/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/25/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/4/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/21/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/16/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/24/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/02/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/15/2016]

Prison Labor Strike in Alabama: “We Will No Longer Contribute to Our Own Oppression”