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This article was co-published by Truthout. In 2013, when I had been locked up in solitary confinement for 25 years, I wrote an essay entitled “A Sentence Worse Than Death,” which I’m told has been read by upwards of a million people to date. It describes what life was like in “the box” (the special […]

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Cost/Budget Issues

I Will Choose Death Over Life Behind Bars Unless New York Changes Its Parole Laws

Seven Days in Solitary [11/30/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/26/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/27/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/11/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/29/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/24/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/17/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/19]

Voices from Solitary: On Suicide Watch

Seven Days in Solitary [2/25/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/18/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/23/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/8/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/11/18]

New Report Highlights 10 Destructive Myths About Solitary Confinement

New Report Documents the “Waste, Cost and Harm” of Solitary Confinement in Texas

Civil and Human Rights Groups to Eric Holder: No New Federal Supermax Prison at Thomson

Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison

Mentally Ill in South Carolina’s Prisons Suffer Decades of Abuse and Neglect

Solitary Confinement: Too Controversial for Costco

Seven Days in Solitary [11/3/13]

Under Fire, Federal Bureau of Prisons Audits Use of Solitary Confinement—and Buys a New Supermax Prison

GAO Report Questions Widespread Use of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons

Obama’s 2014 Budget Confirms Plans for “ADX Thomson,” New Federal Supermax Prison

Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash With Prison Reform

The End of Tamms Supermax

Tamms Supermax: Report Reveals More Guards Than Prisoners, Soaring Costs