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• Excerpts from “Hell is a Very Small Place” were featured on In These Times and Longreads. The book was also reviewed by incarcerated whistleblower Chelsea Manning. The book, which is edited by Solitary Watch’s Jean Casella, Jim Ridgeway and Sarah Shourd, is the first to feature firsthand accounts of life in solitary. • Taylor Pendergrass of the […]

Seven Days in Solitary

California

Seven Days in Solitary [1/14/2016]

Legal Settlement Is Having a “Transformative Effect” on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons

“Suicide Checks” Lead to Extreme Sleep Deprivation at Pelican Bay Prison

California Expects to Save $28 Million By Reducing Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [01/03/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/06/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/13/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/06/2015]

California Prison Hunger Strikes Sparked Solitary Reforms, Internal Documents Show

In Landmark Settlement, Solitary Confinement to Be Dramatically Reduced in California Prisons

Seven Days in Solitary [8/30/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/16/2015]

After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

Will Revamped Prison Regulations Reduce Solitary Confinement in California?

Seven Days in Solitary [6/7/15]

Voices from Solitary: The Safari from Pelikkkan Bay

UN Torture Investigator Barred from Visiting American Supermax Prisons

In California Prisons, Hundreds Removed from Solitary Confinement—and Thousands Remain

Seven Days in Solitary [1/18/2015]

Working from the Inside Out

“A Girl Hung Herself Yesterday”: Deaths in Custody at California Institution for Women

In the Story of Jonah, an Urgent Lesson About the Dangers of Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [8/31/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/13/14]

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

New Solitary Confinement Policies in California Bring Small Changes and Raise Big Questions

Seven Days in Solitary [6/29/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/22/14]