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New this week from Solitary Watch: Having spent more than eight years in solitary confinement, Solitary Watch Contributing Writer Kwaneta Harris was finally moved into “medium custody” in her Texas women’s prison. However, she soon discovered the practice of “23:59” lockdowns—a bureaucratic loophole that allows Texas prison officials to place individuals in solitary confinement for twenty-three […]

Seven Days in Solitary

New Report Shows How Prison Discipline “Manufactures Misconduct”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week 

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by Kilhah St Fort

February 5, 2025

News & Features

Prison Heat: Hunger Strike Highlights Summer’s Deadly Toll on U.S. Inmates

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

July 26, 2010

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