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The following entry was submitted by California Prison Focus on behalf of Cesar Francisco Villa, 51, a “gang-validated” prisoner incarcerated in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU). For eleven years, he has been held in solitary confinement in the SHU, subject to an indefinite term in solitary because, he says, he isn’t a […]

Voices from Solitary

California

Voices from Solitary: “Where Cold, Quiet and Emptiness Come Together”

California Prison Conditions Driving Prisoners to Suicide

Guarding the Fortresses: How Prison Policies Limit Media Access to Solitary Confinement

Journalists Barred from Prison Isolation Units

California Assembly Reviews Solitary Confinement Policies As Prisoners Threaten New Hunger Strike

Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash With Prison Reform

As California Implements Some Solitary Confinement Reforms, Prisoners Remain Skeptical

Suicide in Solitary: The Life and Death of Armando Cruz (Part 2)

Suicide in Solitary: The Life and Death of Armando Cruz (Part 1)

Voices from Solitary: Haunted by Memory’s Ghosts

Prisoner at Corcoran State Prison Commits Suicide in Solitary

Former Hostage in Iran Reports on Solitary Confinement in California

California Prisoners Launch New Hunger Strike on October 10th

Amnesty International Releases Report Condemning California Prison Isolation Units

Solitary Policies in California Revised, As Prisoner Leaders Promote End to Racial Hostilities

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Political or Gang Activity? “New Afrikan” Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

One Year After Historic Hunger Strike, Isolated California Prisoners Report Little Change

Suicide in Solitary: The Death of Alex Machado

Voices from Solitary: Can’t You Hear Us?

One Year Anniversary of Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Isolated for Having a “Gang” Calendar

A Day in the Life of Three Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

California Bill Would Lift Media Ban on Access to Prisons

Voices from Solitary: “The SHU Is California’s Equivalent of Waterboarding”

Controversy Over Kids in Solitary Confinement in Texas

Pelican Bay Prisoners File Lawsuit Against Long-Term Isolation

Voices from Solitary: A Lose-Lose Situation

Children in Solitary