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Ty Evans is serving time in Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana for attempted murder. There, he became a self-taught legal advocate for other incarcerated men—a “jailhouse lawyer.”  There is no right to counsel for those serving prison sentences who seek to challenge their convictions  or their sentences–which is just one aspect of the utter failing […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Testimony of a Jailhouse Lawyer

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by Voices from Solitary

July 30, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary, Analyzing Isolation, Part III

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by Voices from Solitary

May 28, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part I

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by Voices from Solitary

February 18, 2014

News & Features

Women in Solitary Confinement: “The Isolation Degenerates Us Into Madness”

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by Victoria Law

December 11, 2013

News & Features

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/7/13]

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

July 7, 2013

News & Features

Indiana’s Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Violates Constitution

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

January 15, 2013

News & Features

Teen Kills Himself After Being Put in Solitary for…Trying to Kill Himself

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by Jean Casella

March 10, 2010

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