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Dwayne “Bim” Staats is currently incarcerated at the Delaware supermax facility James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. Staats has served 22 years of a life sentence, and has spent 17 years in solitary confinement in prisons across Pennsylvania and Delaware.  In the following piece, Staats recounts a situation in which he and other men were trapped […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: When Toxic Fumes Turned My Solitary Cell into a Death Trap

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by Voices from Solitary

May 28, 2026

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: They’ll Never Count Me Among the Broken

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by Voices from Solitary

March 12, 2026

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Across the Plexiglass

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by Voices from Solitary

June 12, 2025

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Polluted Waters

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by Voices from Solitary

December 6, 2024

Seven Days in Solitary

Washington Prisons Look to Norway for Solitary Reforms…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Kilhah St Fort

September 18, 2024

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Voices from Solitary: On Hunger Strike in a Pennsylvania Prison

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by Voices from Solitary

December 19, 2023

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/7/22]

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by Mirilla Zhu

December 9, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [6/15/22]

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by Roxanne Barnes

June 15, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/6/22]

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by Roxanne Barnes

April 6, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Fourteen Days in Solitary [12/29/21]

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by Roxanne Barnes

December 29, 2021

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [2/19/2017]

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by Aviva Stahl

February 19, 2017

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [2/5/2017]

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by Aviva Stahl

February 5, 2017

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/11/2016]

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by Aviva Stahl

December 11, 2016

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [8/14/2016]

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by Aviva Stahl

August 14, 2016

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [8/30/2015]

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by Garrett Zehr

August 30, 2015

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [8/9/2015]

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by Aviva Stahl

August 9, 2015

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [2/8/2015]

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by Aviva Stahl

February 8, 2015

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