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Charles Tooker, 47, has been incarcerated since 2016 and is currently being held at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad California. Having spent three of the last six years in solitary confinement, Tooker told Solitary Watch that creative expression is his biggest coping mechanism. His passion for the arts, he said, was present prior to […]

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Voices From Solitary: Solitary Poems

Seven Days In Solitary [6/8/22]

Seven Days In Solitary [6/1/22]

Seven Days In Solitary [5/25/22]

Seven Days In Solitary [3/30/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/23/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/23/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/22]

Voices From Solitary: A Day in My Box

Seven Days in Solitary [2/2/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/26/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/22]

Fourteen Days in Solitary [12/29/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/15/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/8/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/24/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/17/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/3/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/29/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/9/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/18/21]

Why Lockdowns Can’t Protect People in Prison From Deadly Viruses

Seven Days in Solitary [5/17/21]

Six Weeks in Solitary [4/5/21]

At San Quentin, the Response to COVID-19 Brings More Isolation and Suffering to People with Mental Illness

Seven Days in Solitary [2/1/21]

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

Seven Days in Solitary [1/18/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/4/20]