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New this week from Solitary Watch: Prison writer and activist Jeremy Busby debunks the myths surrounding Texas’s “double-cell” solitary units, which house two people in a single cell for nearly 24 hours a day. Following the death of Alton Rodger, an incarcerated man, Busby details the inhumane conditions of these cells and how they contributed […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Death Row

Virginia Governor Vetoes Solitary Reform Bill…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: Moving Day

Protests Against Long-Term Solitary Continue in Virginia…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New Study Finds ICE Locks Thousands of Immigrants in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: You Have to Be There

The Conservative Case Against Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Lawsuit Exposes “Unconstitutional, Torturous” Conditions in a Pennsylvania Prison Unit… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: Freedom of Movement

New York City Ordered to Pay up to $53 Million to Survivors of Solitary… And Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Kids Locked Up Alone in Filthy Cells at Baltimore County Jail…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Men on Texas Death Row Sue to End Decades of “Cruel” Isolation…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

“Unrelenting” Solitary on Federal Death Row Alleged to Violate Constitution…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Federal Judge Orders Arizona to Fix Deadly Prison Conditions…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Seven Days in Solitary [9/13/22]

Voices from Solitary: Living on Deathwatch

Seven Days in Solitary [4/16/2017]

American Outcasts: U.S. Prisons and Modern Day Banishment

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part II

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/22]

Voices from Solitary: New Memoir by Wilbert Rideau

Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”

Voices from Solitary: Life on Level 3, Texas Death Row

Voices from Solitary: Lane Nelson on Angola’s Death Row

Voices from Solitary: Loneliness and Solitude

Voices from Solitary: Art from Tennessee’s Death Row

Voices from Solitary: What Solitary Confinement Does to the Mind

Voices from Solitary: “Death Row Diary” of Florida Man Scheduled to Die Tonight

Voices from Solitary: TV Death Row

Voices from Solitary: The Heaviness of Blood