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This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: After surviving Tennessee’s execution attempt and spending ten days in intensive care, Christa Pike was transferred to the infirmary at the Debra Johnson Rehabilitation Center, the state’s main women’s prison. Pike is being kept in solitary confinement, which she says adds to the mental and […]

Seven Days in Solitary

After Three Decades in Solitary, Execution Survivor Christa Pike Is Again Held in Isolation…

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by Mira Nalbandian

November 4, 2026

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Suicidal ICE Detainees Routinely Put in Solitary…

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by Natalie Villanueva

October 7, 2026

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Incarcerated BLM Activist Transferred After Organizing Against Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Rachael Dziaba

August 12, 2026

News & Features Ridgeway Reporting Project

The Elderly “7-Ups” Enduring Indefinite Incarceration

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by Kevin Sawyer

August 7, 2026

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Man Who Tore Out His Eyes in an Isolation Cell Seeks Justice from Federal Appeals Court…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Lizzie Twardock

July 1, 2026

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Life After Death Row—and Decades of Solitary—in California…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Kylie Price

June 24, 2026

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I Will Choose Death Over Life Behind Bars Unless New York Changes Its Parole Laws

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by William Blake

April 28, 2026

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Detainees Reportedly Held in Conditions of Torture at “Alligator Alcatraz”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Lizzie Twardock

April 8, 2026

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There Are No Monsters: A Poem for the Women in Solitary Confinement

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by Kwaneta Harris

April 3, 2026

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GOP Lawmakers Push to Weaken New York’s Solitary Law…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Sheila Hodges

March 25, 2026

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: They’ll Never Count Me Among the Broken

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by Voices from Solitary

March 12, 2026

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New York State Holds Children in Solitary Without Toilets…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Sara Vogel

January 14, 2026

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NY Prisons Seek to Weaken Law Limiting Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Sara Vogel

November 19, 2025

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In “The Alabama Solution,” Incarcerated Filmmakers Face Punishment for Exposing the Truth…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Emily Engel

October 15, 2025

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Solitary Linked to Epidemic of Prison Suicides… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Isadora Evers

July 16, 2025

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Voices from Solitary: The Crisis at Brooklyn’s “Dangerous, Barbaric” Federal Jail

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by Voices from Solitary

July 1, 2025

News & Features

Juneteenth to an Incarcerated American 

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by Juan Moreno Haines

June 19, 2025

News & Features Ridgeway Reporting Project

Ending the “Last Vestiges of Slavery” in New York

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by Nicholas Brooks

May 2, 2025

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Pope Francis Condemned Solitary Confinement as Torture…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Djamilah Diabate

April 23, 2025

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The Harsh Reality of Being a Prison Journalist…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Djamilah Diabate

March 26, 2025

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Trump Order Will Force Transgender Women to Be Housed in Men’s Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Francisco Rodriguez

January 29, 2025

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Illinois Legislature Passes Bill to Increase Transparency on Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Kilhah St Fort

January 8, 2025

News & Features

How Washington State Stifles the First Amendment for the Incarcerated

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by Christopher Blackwell

December 22, 2024

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Righting the Historical Wrongs for Native People in Prison

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by Voices from Solitary

November 26, 2024

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Federal Court Allows Man to Sue Pennsylvania Over 26 Years in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Kilhah St Fort

October 2, 2024

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Bill Permits Solitary Confinement of Pregnant People in California Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Sophia Chang

September 5, 2024

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Tennessee Woman Forced to Give Birth Alone in Jail Cell Toilet…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Maeve Brennan

August 14, 2024

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NYC Mayor Issues “Emergency Order” to Block New Solitary Confinement Law…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week 

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by Maeve Brennan

July 31, 2024

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Where Does Kamala Harris Stand on Ending Solitary?…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Sophia Chang

July 24, 2024

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