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The following piece is co-published with Ms. Magazine. In this powerful mother-daughter exchange, Summer Knight and Kwaneta Harris reveal how nearly a decade of forced silence through solitary confinement shattered their bond—and how they’re fighting to rebuild it, piece by piece. Summer I was only four months old when my mama got arrested. That’s what […]

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“Mama’s in the Hole”

Witnessing the Solitary-to-Cemetery Pipeline

Voices from Solitary: Stillness Is My Nemesis

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/2022]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/25/22]

Movement to End Juvenile Solitary Confinement Gains Ground, But Hundreds of Kids Remain in Isolation

Voices from Solitary: A Second-by-Second Attack on Your Soul

What Solitary Confinement Does to the Human Brain

Voices from Solitary: The Torture Chamber

Seven Days in Solitary [5/12/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/4/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [4.27.13]

Seven Days in Solitary [4.4.13]

Florida Bill Would Limit Use of Solitary Confinement on Children

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America’s Official Child Abuse

Scientists Discover How Social Isolation Damages Young Brains

Washington Prisoner Subjected to Solitary Confinement for “Involuntary Protection”

Voices from Solitary: From the Vortex of Uinta One

Voices from Solitary: “No Longer a Part of the World”

Voices from Solitary: Exiled In Purgatory

Former Detainee Describes Solitary Confinement at Guantanamo

How to Create Madness in Prison