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This story is co-published with The Appeal. Alton Rodgers’s cellmate beat him repeatedly for a month before he died. On at least five occasions, Rodgers’s cellmate allegedly smashed Rodgers’s head against the concrete floor, walls, and other objects. According to the lawsuit that Rodgers’s family filed against the prison system, Rodgers, who was 6’3”, had […]

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No Exit: Death and Despair in Texas’s “Double-Cell” Solitary Units

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by Jeremy Busby

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Corrections Officer Found Guilty in Death in a Rikers Island Solitary Cell

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December 20, 2014

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A Suspicious (and Lonely) Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

March 19, 2010

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