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Lifelong Black Panther Party member Shaykh Ali was first incarcerated in 1967. He re-entered Delaware’s prison system in 1977. While incarcerated, Ali spent the majority of his sentence in solitary confinement. After having served 46 years of a 67-year sentence, Ali was released on April 19, 2023, under Delaware’s compassionate release statute due to various […]

Voices from Solitary

Human Rights

Voices from Solitary: They’ll Never Count Me Among the Broken

In Solitary on Rikers Island

The Weight of Watching: How Prisons Turn Traumatized Women Into Unpaid Crisis Workers

New Book Makes a Powerful Case for Ending Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Postpartum in a Cage

The Shape-Shifting Face of Solitary Confinement: A Prison Hospital’s Dark Truth

When Isolation Became the Supreme Punishment

Remembering Black August from Prison: The Struggle Continues

The Jailhouse Lawyer: Fighting Abuse and Forced Medication at Angola Prison

Voices from Solitary: Fighting for Everyone’s Liberation

Voices from Solitary: The Crisis at Brooklyn’s “Dangerous, Barbaric” Federal Jail

Beyond The Rainbow: Remembering Our Most Forgotten

Voices from Solitary: Across the Plexiglass

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

I Was an Incarcerated Nursing Assistant During Covid. This Is What I Saw.

Invisible Chains

Stripped Rights

Lawsuit Accuses New York Prisons of Illegally Putting Disabled People in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: You Have to Be There

Voices from Solitary: On Hunger Strike in a Pennsylvania Prison

Voices from Solitary: I Need to Be Alone

The Word: When Solitary Is Used to Silence

Seven Days in Solitary [12/28/22]

Will Biden Step Up on Solitary Confinement?

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

Seven Days in Solitary [1/11/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/4/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/7/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/30/20]