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The following piece, written by Cinquan Umar Muhammad, won second place in the inaugural Voices Beyond the Walls writing contest, presented by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture’s National Network of Solitary Survivors in collaboration with Solitary Watch. The first place winner was published here. As NRCAT notes: “The contest aims to uplift the lived […]

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Human Rights

The Room That Tried to Unmake Me

Voices from Solitary: The Lord of Table Six’s New Clothes

Isolation and Neglect Fuel Suicides in ICE Detention…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

The Daughter the Criminal Legal System Failed, and the Mother Who Never Did

Voices from Solitary: We Treated POWs Better Than This

They Had to Clean Solitary Cells. What They Saw Forced Them to Quit.

There Are No Monsters: A Poem for the Women in Solitary Confinement

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