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New this week from Solitary Watch: To mark Mother’s Day, Solitary Watch contributing writer Kwaneta Harris and her daughter Summer Knight engage in a powerful exchange about how their bond was shattered by nearly a decade of forced silence through solitary confinement. Knight opens up about the confusion, anxiety, and fear she felt when her […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Immigrants

New Mexico Sued for “Cruel and Unusual” Use of Prolonged Prison Isolation… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Seven Days in Solitary [1/31/2016]

Immigrant Hunger Strikers Placed in Solitary Confinement at Federal Detention Center

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/1/13]

New Directive May Curtail Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention

Seven Days in Solitary [9/8/13]

Measure to Limit Solitary Confinement Advances in Senate Immigration Bill

The Ten Worst Prisons in America

Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention

U.S. Holds Hundreds of Detained Immigrants in Solitary Confinement

New Report Calls for End to Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention

Transgender Immigrant Detainees Locked in Solitary Confinement

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

From BOP to CCA: Federal Prison Director Defects to Private Prison Company

Private Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

Solitary Deaths in Immigrant Detention Centers