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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

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]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/9/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/26/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/12/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/21/20]

Struggling to Survive at San Quentin: “We Are Dying in Here”

Voices from Solitary: What Starts in ADX Stays in ADX

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/20/20]

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/6/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/18/20]

Fourteen Days in Solitary [3/30/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/16/20]