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What they don’t tell you about solitary confinement is how it shape-shifts, morphing into forms you never expected, slipping through the cracks of places supposedly designed for healing. I learned this lesson in the most bitter way possible at the prison hospital in Galveston, Texas, where care became just another word for control, and medical […]

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The Shape-Shifting Face of Solitary Confinement: A Prison Hospital’s Dark Truth

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by Kwaneta Harris

October 14, 2025

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [7/23/2017]

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by Aviva Stahl

July 23, 2017

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Journalists Barred from Prison Isolation Units

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by James Ridgeway

March 5, 2013

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