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New this week from Solitary Watch: Dwayne “Bim” Staats has spent nearly 17 years in solitary confinement in prisons across Pennsylvania and Delaware. In his essay for Voices from Solitary, Staats writes from the perspective of his nephew when he was three years old, drawing from Staats’s personal experiences, conversations with his family, and stories […]

Seven Days in Solitary

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Corrections Leaders Say Solitary Does Not Make Prisons Safer…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New High-Security Unit on Rikers May Violate Solitary Confinement Law…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: A Slow Drift Into the Abyss

Democratic Platform Backtracks on Solitary and the Death Penalty…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Lawsuit Accuses New York Prisons of Illegally Putting Disabled People in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

After Nine Studies, Use of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons Just Keeps Increasing

Ninety Percent of Incarcerated Transgender People Report Experiencing Solitary Confinement…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Federal Prisons Under Fire From Watchdogs Over Solitary, Suicides…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Report Shows Hundreds of Preventable Deaths in Federal Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New Study Finds ICE Locks Thousands of Immigrants in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Protests Against Long-Term Solitary Continue in Virginia…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

No Decrease in Solitary Use in Federal Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/7/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/16/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/10/21]

Where the Democratic Presidential Candidates Stand on Solitary

Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [11/10/13]

Pat Nolan’s Evangelical Prison Reform

Feds to Open New Supermax Prison Cells at “Gitmo North”