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In an article supported by Solitary Watch and published this week by The Progressive in its magazine and online, Solitary Watch Senior Writer/Editor Katie Rose Quandt exposes the incontrovertible link between solitary confinement and the epidemic numbers of suicides in U.S. prisons and jails. An excerpt appears below; read the full article on the website […]

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deaths in custody

How Solitary Confinement Kills

Voices from Solitary: The Crisis at Brooklyn’s “Dangerous, Barbaric” Federal Jail

Witnessing the Solitary-to-Cemetery Pipeline

Tennessee Woman Forced to Give Birth Alone in Jail Cell Toilet…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Deaf People Face “Pervasive Mistreatment” in Las Vegas Jail…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

U.S. Prison Deaths Increased by 77% in Covid-19 Pandemic…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Hunger Strike in a Massachusetts Prison Targets Isolation and Abuse…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Prison Journalists Report at Their Own Risk…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

A Moment of Reckoning for Solitary Confinement in California…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

What It’s Like to Be in Solitary If You Can’t Read…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Seven Days in Solitary [10/26/22]

Seven Days In Solitary [4/13/22]

Voices from Solitary: Death Would Feel So Much Better

Seven Days in Solitary [9/23/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/14/18]

Chicago Jail’s Quest to End Solitary Confinement Is a Work in Progress

Voices from Solitary: Six by Ten

The View from Badger Yard: Surviving in San Quentin with COVID-19

Seven Days in Solitary [11/12/17]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/7/17]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/28/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/4/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/18/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/25/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/27/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/12/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/26/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/2/18]