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Santa Was in Solitary and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Jailhouse Lawyers Are Often Punished With Solitary Confinement

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

How Not to Fight a Prison Pandemic [Update]

Can Architects Help End Solitary Confinement?

No Touching Allowed for Many LGBTQ+ People in Prison

How Not to Fight a Prison Pandemic

Why Lockdowns Can’t Protect People in Prison From Deadly Viruses

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

James Ridgeway, 1936–2021

At San Quentin, the Response to COVID-19 Brings More Isolation and Suffering to People with Mental Illness

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

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

D.C. Jail: From Hellhole to Hotspot

Santa Was in Solitary and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Incarcerated Women Are Punished for Their Trauma With Solitary Confinement

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

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

Inside One Lawyer’s Quest to End Solitary Confinement

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

At San Quentin, a Desperate Man Goes on Hunger Strike to Protest Conditions in a COVID-19 Isolation Unit

As Black Lives Matter Protests Mounted, Federal Prisons Went on Lockdown—and Their Staffs Were Deployed to the Streets

“I Hope Our Daughters Will Not Be Punished”

“Man Down:” Left in the Hole at San Quentin During a Coronavirus Crisis

Despite Harsh Lockdowns, Nearly Half of Women in Massachusetts Prisons Caught the Coronavirus

As COVID-19 Spreads Through Prisons, Solitary Confinement Is Used to Punish Whistleblowers and Suppress Protests

Local Jails Were Death Traps Even Before COVID-19. The Pandemic Demands Sweeping—and Permanent—Change.

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

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