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Human Rights

Malika Henderson is a 30-year-old incarcerated abolitionist from North Philadelphia. Henderson has been incarcerated for 12 years, including nine years in solitary confinement at various times. In addition to utilizing every means available to elevate herself while behind bars, Henderson stands up for the human rights of her fellow incarcerated women and fights to end […]

Voices from Solitary

Human Rights

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

Videos Show Brutal Treatment of Prisoners with Mental Illness

Seven Days in Solitary [12/28/22]

Pope Francis Denounces Solitary Confinement, Calls for Prison Conditions That “Respect Human Dignity”

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

A Suspicious (and Lonely) Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Off the Block

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

Will Biden Step Up on Solitary Confinement?

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

Voices from Solitary: Charles P. Norman on “The Insanity of Solitary Confinement”

Voices from Solitary: “What Prisoners Have…”

AFSC Seeks Stories of Isolation and Torture in U.S. Prisons

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

Voices from Solitary: On Solitary Confinement and Finding Humanity