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DC Jail

This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: A lengthy feature in the New York Times explores how prisons and jails across the United States have become the nation’s largest providers of inpatient mental health treatment. It’s estimated that 200,000 to 300,000 currently incarcerated people have a serious mental illness, which is ten […]

Seven Days in Solitary

The Deadly Consequences of Mental Illness in Prison…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Sara Vogel

May 8, 2024

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Hunger Strike Against Solitary in Texas Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Mirilla Zhu

January 12, 2023

News & Features

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

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by Katie Rose Quandt

January 9, 2023

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Seven Days In Solitary [4/20/22]

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by Mirilla Zhu

April 20, 2022

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by Lizzie Kane

May 19, 2021

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Report Blasts Conditions at District of Columbia Jail

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by Courtney Belme and James Ridgeway

August 26, 2015

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