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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 […]

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Incarcerated Women Are Punished for Their Trauma With Solitary Confinement

Five Unforgettable Stories From Inside Solitary Confinement

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

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

James Ridgeway, 1936–2021

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

Opening the Door

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

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

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

Santa Was in Solitary and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

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

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

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

Louisiana on Lockdown: The History of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana

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

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

Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners

Leaving Cañon City

Sex-for-Snitching Ring Reported at Massachusetts Prison

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

Texas Lockdown: Solitary Confinement in the Lone Star State

City to Sharply Increase Solitary Confinement on Rikers Island

“Total Isolation”: Solitary Confinement in Oregon

Portrait of a Prison Whistleblower—and His Punishment

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

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

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