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New this week from Solitary Watch: When JD was arrested and placed in solitary confinement, her body was “still healing from a difficult labor, still bleeding, still adjusting after birth, still overwhelmed by the hormonal storm that every mother endures in those first fragile weeks.” Despite exhibiting signs of postpartum depression and aggravated symptoms of […]

News & Features

Pregnant Women in ICE Detention Face Isolation, Shackling, and Medical Neglect…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Sara Vogel

October 29, 2025

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Immigrant Detainees Went on Hunger Strike Against Intolerable Conditions and COVID Exposure. ICE Punished Them with Solitary Confinement.

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

January 28, 2021

News & Features

D.C. Jail: From Hellhole to Hotspot

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by Valerie Kiebala, James Ridgeway, and Lawrence Ukenye

December 30, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/7/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

December 7, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

October 5, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [9/28/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

September 29, 2020

News & Features

Struggling to Survive at San Quentin: “We Are Dying in Here”

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by Juan Moreno Haines

August 14, 2020

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Coronavirus Panic in a Quarantined Washington State Prison

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by Voices from Solitary

April 22, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/13/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

April 19, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [3/9/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

March 9, 2020

News & Features

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

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by Valerie Kiebala

January 6, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/16/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

December 16, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/28/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

October 28, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [8/5/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

August 5, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [5/6/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

May 6, 2019

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: We Go Through Hell Here

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by Voices from Solitary

May 3, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/29/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

April 29, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [3/18/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

March 24, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [3/4/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

March 4, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [9/2/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

September 2, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [8/12/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

August 12, 2018

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