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Elizabeth Hawes is an award-winning prison writer and former editor of Reflector, the prison news magazine at Minnesota Correctional Institution (MCI)—Shakopee, where Hawes is serving her Life Without Parole sentence. In November 2020, Hawes won an award in the PEN America Prison Writing Contest. In 2018, Hawes completed the play Supernova, examining women’s incarceration and […]

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Incarcerated Women Are Punished for Their Trauma With Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

December 24, 2020

News & Features

Five Unforgettable Stories From Inside Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

November 27, 2017

News & Features

Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention Is a Grim Reality—and Only Likely to Get Worse

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by Abram Wolfe

July 30, 2019

News & Features

Written Through the Prison Wall, Play Reveals One Woman’s Experience of Solitary Confinement

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by Vaidya Gullapalli

May 17, 2016

News & Features

James Ridgeway, 1936–2021

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by Jean Casella

February 17, 2021

Ridgeway Reporting Project

In San Quentin, Getting the Flu Can Land You in Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

March 5, 2020

News & Features

Opening the Door

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by Jean Casella

April 29, 2016

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

News & Features

Prisons’ Use of Solitary Confinement Explodes with the COVID-19 Pandemic, While Advocates Push for Alternatives

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by Jean Casella and Katie Rose Quandt

April 10, 2020

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Digging Our Way Out of the Hole: Keeping Prisons Safe Without Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

October 14, 2020

News & Features

Santa Was in Solitary and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

December 20, 2018

Ridgeway Reporting Project

At San Quentin Prison, Men Ravaged by Covid-19 and Decades of Incarceration Hold an Election of Their Own

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by Juan Moreno Haines and Kevin Deroi Sawyer

November 2, 2020

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

Ridgeway Reporting Project

In New York, Few Resources for Solitary Confinement Survivors After Prison

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

February 8, 2021

SW Reports

Louisiana on Lockdown: The History of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana

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by Katie Rose Quandt

September 12, 2019

Voices from Solitary

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

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by Voices from Solitary

March 29, 2021

Voices from Solitary

“It’s Like a Slow War, Like a Slow Burn. Like a Slow, Quiet Form of Torture.”

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by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

December 14, 2021

News & Features

Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 12, 2010

News & Features

Leaving Cañon City

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

October 11, 2010

News & Features

Sex-for-Snitching Ring Reported at Massachusetts Prison

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by James Ridgeway

November 2, 2010

News & Features

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 28, 2011

News & Features

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

March 1, 2011

News & Features

Texas Lockdown: Solitary Confinement in the Lone Star State

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by Elisa Mosler

July 6, 2011

News & Features

City to Sharply Increase Solitary Confinement on Rikers Island

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by Dina Levy and Jean Casella

November 21, 2011

News & Features

“Total Isolation”: Solitary Confinement in Oregon

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by Sal Rodriguez

September 11, 2012

News & Features

Portrait of a Prison Whistleblower—and His Punishment

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

September 13, 2012

News & Features

Suicide in Solitary: The Life and Death of Armando Cruz (Part 1)

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by Sal Rodriguez

January 17, 2013

News & Features

Suicide in Solitary: The Life and Death of Armando Cruz (Part 2)

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by Sal Rodriguez

January 18, 2013

News & Features

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

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 8, 2013

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