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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

This commentary is the latest in The Word from Solitary Watch, our series of dispatches by Solitary Watch staff and contributors. • Over the past year, I’ve been gathering data on solitary confinement in immigration detention and interviewing individuals in detention, along with civil liberties experts, for a fact sheet and an article co-published by […]

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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

The Deadly Abuses Within ICE Facilities Are Amplifications of Our Own Prison System

As an Immigrant, I’m Safer in San Quentin Than If Paroled

In Solitary on Rikers Island

Voices from Solitary: An Elusive Victory

Migrants Face Inhumane Conditions, Abuse, and Solitary at El Paso ICE Facility…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Trump Plans to Restore Alcatraz…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Federal Judge Allows Detention and Torture of Migrants at Guantanamo…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New High-Security Unit on Rikers May Violate Solitary Confinement Law…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

ACLU Sues ICE for Transparency on Solitary Confinement Rules…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Virginia Prison Considered Charging Men Who Burned Themselves to Protest Conditions…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Pattern of Beatings and Solitary Preceded Deadly New York Prison Assault…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Sexual Abuse, Medical Neglect, and Prolonged Solitary Reported in ICE Facility…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

The Fight Against Solitary Confinement Must—and Will—Go On

Most Immigrant Deaths in ICE Detention Were Preventable…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Refusing Forced Labor in Prisons Is Punished with Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Texas Prisons Are “Hell on Earth”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Lawsuit Accuses New York Prisons of Illegally Putting Disabled People in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Georgia Prison in “Flagrant” Violation of Solitary Reforms…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

DOJ Launches Civil Rights Investigation of Two Deadly South Carolina Jails…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

The Right Finally Protests Brutal U.S. Jail Conditions—But Only for January Sixers

Seven Days in Solitary [11/30/2022]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/22/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/7/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/24/22]

Will Biden Step Up on Solitary Confinement?

“It’s Like a Slow War, Like a Slow Burn. Like a Slow, Quiet Form of Torture.”

Seven Days in Solitary [6/7/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/6/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/11/19]