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• Gothamist published an article noting that thousands of people spent the holidays in isolation in New York’s state prisons, where 2,500 adults are currently held in Special Housing Units (SHU) and about 1,000 others are held in another form of solitary called keeplock. Victor Pate, a formerly incarcerated advocate who was once held in solitary at […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/31/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

December 31, 2018

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Seven Days in Solitary [1/7/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

January 7, 2019

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Seven Days in Solitary [1/14/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

January 14, 2019

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by Valerie Kiebala

January 28, 2019

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February 4, 2019

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Seven Days in Solitary [4/8/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

April 8, 2019

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Seven Days in Solitary [5/20/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

May 20, 2019

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Seven Days in Solitary [7/13/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

July 15, 2019

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Seven Days in Solitary [11/11/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

November 11, 2019

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Seven Days in Solitary [11/25/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

November 26, 2019

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by Valerie Kiebala

December 16, 2019

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Seven Days in Solitary [1/13/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

January 13, 2020

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Fourteen Days in Solitary [3/30/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

March 31, 2020

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Seven Days in Solitary [4/27/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

April 29, 2020

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Fourteen Days in Solitary [6/8/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

June 8, 2020

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Fourteen Days in Solitary [8/24/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

August 25, 2020

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Seven Days in Solitary [10/19/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

October 19, 2020

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A Month in Solitary [5/3/21]

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by Annalena Wolcke

May 3, 2021

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Seven Days in Solitary [5/17/21]

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by Lizzie Kane

May 19, 2021

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Fourteen Days in Solitary [5/31/21]

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by Annalena Wolcke

June 14, 2021

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Seven Days in Solitary [8/25/21]

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by Roxanne Barnes

August 25, 2021

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by Roxanne Barnes

September 30, 2021

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by Roxanne Barnes

November 10, 2021

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Seven Days in Solitary [12/15/21]

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by Roxanne Barnes

December 20, 2021

News & Features

Feds to Open New Supermax Prison Cells at “Gitmo North”

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 8, 2013

News & Features

Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash With Prison Reform

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 21, 2013

News & Features

Journalists Barred from Prison Isolation Units

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by James Ridgeway

March 5, 2013

News & Features

New Federal Supermax Prison Will Double Capacity for Extreme Solitary Confinement

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by Aviva Stahl

January 15, 2015

News & Features

Toxic Traps: Environmental Hazards Threaten Two Federal Supermax Prisons

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by Laura Cepero

September 10, 2015

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