Voices from Solitary: What Solitary Confinement Does to the Mind

February 16, 2013October 21, 2015 Voices from Solitary

The following was submitted to Solitary Watch by Michael Jewell, who was sentenced to death in Texas for capital murder in 1970 and spent three years in solitary confinement as a death row prisoner. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1973 following the 1972 Supreme Court ruling in Furman v. Georgia, which prohibited […]

New Video: Charlie and Pauline Sullivan of C.U.R.E.

October 18, 2011October 20, 2015 James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

CURE–Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants–is an international organization that was founded in Texas in 1972, and became a national organization in 1985. Now nearly 40 years old, CURE has remained loyal to its original ideals, even as the politics of punishment brought about a shift in ideology and resources away from rehabilitation and toward retribution. […]

By Vaidya Gullapalli | July 7, 2021