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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 […]

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HALT Solitary Confinement Act

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

Trump Plans to Restore Alcatraz…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Pope Francis Condemned Solitary Confinement as Torture…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Women in Solitary Speak Out on Sexual Abuse by Staff…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Federal Court Allows Man to Sue Pennsylvania Over 26 Years in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

How New York’s Maximum-Security Women’s Prison Has Failed to HALT Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: At Attica, Hard Hearts and a Sliver of Hope

U.S. Use of Solitary Defies International Treaty, UN Finds…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Post-Traumatic Prison Disorder Could Impact Millions…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

The Solitary Confinement Law Everyone Is Watching

Federal Court Orders Arizona to End Its “Unconstitutional” Use of Solitary… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Abusive Federal “Double Solitary” Unit Closes…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Seven Days in Solitary [11/30/2022]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/2022]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/2/2022]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/19/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/12/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/28/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/13/22]

These Labor Unions Are Fighting to Keep Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [6/29/22]

Seven Days In Solitary [4/13/22]

New York’s Oldest Supermax Prison Closes as State Prepares to Implement Law Limiting Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [11/3/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/22/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/21]

Six Weeks in Solitary [4/5/21]

“Ready to Return to Humanity” After 34 Years in Solitary Confinement

In New York’s State Prisons, One Night in Solitary Can Derail an Education