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This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: Supported by Congress’s recent approval of $45 billion to expand immigrant detention over the next four years, the Trump administration plans to reopen many former prisons and detention centers that were closed due to “concerns about violence, medical neglect, and systemic understaffing.” At one of […]

Seven Days in Solitary

ICE Reopens Prisons and Detention Centers Previously Closed Due to Abuse and Neglect…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Emily Engel

September 17, 2025

News & Features

How Solitary Confinement Reproduces Racial Ideologies

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

October 13, 2022

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Books Are a Spark in the Dark

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by Voices from Solitary

September 6, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [9/23/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

September 23, 2019

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New Book (and New York Events) on Solitary Confinement by Dr. Terry Kupers Join Expertise to Empathy

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

October 19, 2017

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