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This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: A KQED investigation revealed a pattern of sexual abuse and retaliation against incarcerated women at the Central California Women’s Facility—one of the largest women’s prisons in the world. Hundreds of disciplinary records revealed systematic failures to investigate allegations against staff and a lack of accountability […]

Seven Days in Solitary

“Unbroken Pattern” of Sexual Abuse and Retaliation in California Women’s Prison Includes Months in Solitary…

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by Natalie Villanueva

October 28, 2026

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

Seven Days in Solitary

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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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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