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For Mother’s Day, we are reposting this article, originally published in November 2020. It was May 2020, and Esther Arias was finally going to be released from prison. For years of her 14-year sentence, she had held out hope that she would win her appeal and surprise her four kids one day by picking them […]

News & Features

“You Can Never Get That Time Back”: Solitary Confinement Is Devastating for Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children

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by Ella Goldblum

May 12, 2024

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: What My Mother Doesn’t Know

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by Voices from Solitary

November 17, 2021

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [2/22/21]

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by Lizzie Kane

February 22, 2021

News & Features

“You Can Never Get That Time Back”: Solitary Confinement Is Devastating for Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children

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by Ella Goldblum

November 13, 2020

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With Loved Ones in Prison, Women Lead the Fight Against Solitary Confinement in New York

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by Keri Blakinger

May 28, 2015

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