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As Americans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, inmates in solitary confinement at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison are standing up for their rights in the only way they can–by going on a hunger strike. The prisoners, who are being held in long-term and often permanent isolation, have sworn to refuse food until conditions are improved in Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit […]

News & Features

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 30, 2011

Ridgeway Reporting Project

14 Journalists Awarded Grants from the Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

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by Jean Casella

April 9, 2019

Ridgeway Reporting Project

In San Quentin, Getting the Flu Can Land You in Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

March 5, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [2/2/22]

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by Roxanne Barnes

February 2, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/22]

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by Roxanne Barnes

February 9, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [2/23/22]

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by Roxanne Barnes

February 23, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [3/23/22]

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by Roxanne Barnes

March 23, 2022

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Inside the Hole: Enduring Solitary Confinement in California

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

September 2, 2020

Ridgeway Reporting Project

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

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

January 28, 2021

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

May 19, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Gang “Validation” and Permanent Isolation in California Prisons

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

August 7, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Ara Oshagan Photographs California Juvies

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 4, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Mother’s Story

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

May 14, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Little Taste of “Freedom”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

September 27, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Letters from the Hole

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

October 10, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The “Life Negating Emptiness” of the Pelican Bay SHU

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 25, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere”

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by Sal Rodriguez

August 23, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Loneliness and Solitude

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by Sal Rodriguez

October 1, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Letter from Calipatria Prison Hunger Strikers

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by Sal Rodriguez

October 8, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “We Will Not Stop Until We Are Heard”

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by Sal Rodriguez

October 14, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “There Must Never Be A Time When We Fail To Protest”

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by Sal Rodriguez

October 30, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

July 1, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Message from the Father of a California Prison Hunger Striker

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

November 19, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Was “the Only Way to Get the Word Out” About Prison Abuses

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by Sal Rodriguez

September 6, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

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by Sal Rodriguez

July 24, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Christmas in the Hole, 1968

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

December 17, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Lose-Lose Situation

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by Voices from Solitary

May 25, 2012

Voices from Solitary

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

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by Voices from Solitary

June 10, 2012

Voices from Solitary

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

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by Voices from Solitary

July 1, 2012

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