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This article was co-published by Truthout. In 2013, when I had been locked up in solitary confinement for 25 years, I wrote an essay entitled “A Sentence Worse Than Death,” which I’m told has been read by upwards of a million people to date. It describes what life was like in “the box” (the special […]

News & Features

I Will Choose Death Over Life Behind Bars Unless New York Changes Its Parole Laws

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by William Blake

April 28, 2026

News & Features

No Exit: Death and Despair in Texas’s “Double-Cell” Solitary Units

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by Jeremy Busby

March 31, 2025

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Polluted Waters

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by Voices from Solitary

December 6, 2024

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Slow Drift Into the Abyss

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by Voices from Solitary

October 7, 2024

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: You Have to Be There

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by Voices from Solitary

January 22, 2024

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [8/5/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

August 5, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [7/29/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

July 29, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [7/22/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

July 22, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [7/15/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

July 15, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [7/1/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

July 1, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/15/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

April 15, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [6/18/2017]

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by Aviva Stahl

June 18, 2017

News & Features

Corrections Officer Found Guilty in Death in a Rikers Island Solitary Cell

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by Vaidya Gullapalli

December 20, 2014

News & Features

Family of California Prisoner Who Died on Hunger Strike Speaks Out

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by Sal Rodriguez

February 23, 2012

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