Skip to content
SW logo
MENU
  • About
    • About Solitary Watch
    • Staff & Advisors
    • Internships & Volunteer Opportunities
    • Support SW
    • Contact
  • Resources
    • Solitary Confinement in the U.S.: The Facts (English, Spanish & French)
    • SW Fact Sheets
    • SW in Other Media Outlets
    • SW Reports: Calculating Torture: 2023 Count of People in Solitary
    • SW Reports: COVID-19 and Solitary
    • SW Reports: Louisiana On Lockdown
    • SW Book: Hell Is A Very Small Place (with Reading Guide)
    • Resources For Action
  • Projects
    • The Ridgeway Reporting Project
    • Lifelines to Solitary
    • Photo Requests From Solitary
  • Subscribe
  • Donate

Solitary Watch

Filters
  • News & Features
  • Voices from Solitary
  • Seven Days in Solitary
  • Projects

LGBTQ+

New this week from Solitary Watch: In honor of World Storytelling Day, Solitary Watch, in collaboration with Unlock the Box, highlighted five incarcerated writers whose works significantly contributed to exposing the harms of solitary confinement and other prison conditions in the United States. Complementing  the 2026 World Storytelling Day theme of “Light in the Dark,” […]

Seven Days in Solitary

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

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Sheila Hodges

March 25, 2026

Projects SW Fact Sheets

LGBTQ+ People in Solitary Confinement: New Fact Sheet Outlines Disproportionate, Malicious Use on an Already At-Risk Population

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Jean Casella

December 22, 2025

Seven Days in Solitary

Louisiana’s Angola Prison to Reopen Unit Notorious for Solitary Confinement Abuses…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Surina Venkat

August 13, 2025

Previous
  • 1
  • 1
Next

P.O. Box 11374
Washington, DC 20008

info@solitarywatch.org

Solitary Watch

  • Visit our bluesky page
  • Visit our facebook page
  • Visit our twitter page
  • Visit our instagram page
  • Visit our linkedin page
  • Visit our rss page

© Copyright 2026, Solitary Watch

Read about rights and permissions.

Creative Commons License