"Witness to Human Torture": On Both Sides of the Prison Walls, Social Workers Confront Solitary Confinement

November 3, 2017November 30, 2017 Valerie Kiebala

Esther Lim, a social worker employed by the ACLU to monitor LA County jails, was meeting with an incarcerated man in an attorney meeting room in 2011 when she heard what sounded like a fight. She looked through a window to see two deputies repeatedly beating an incarcerated man, James Parker, and shocking him with […]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/19/2017]

March 19, 2017May 8, 2017 Aviva Stahl

• Lawyers for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is currently held in solitary confinement in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, have filed papers asking that their client be transferred to general population and be granted visiting privileges to speak to his wife. According to CNN, “During the week, Guzman spends 23 hours […]

Solitary Watch

By James Ridgeway | November 20, 2019

Darren Rainey

Seven Days in Solitary [3/19/2017]