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Life Without Parole

The following essay is by William Blake. In 1987, Blake, then 23 and in county court on a drug charge, grabbed a gun from a sheriff’s deputy in a failed escape attempt, murdering one deputy and wounding another. He was sentenced to 77 years to life. The New York State prison system, classifying him as […]

Voices from Solitary

Life Without Parole

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

America’s Most Isolated Federal Prisoner Describes 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [8/17/22]

American Outcasts: U.S. Prisons and Modern Day Banishment

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

Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”

Voices from Solitary: “Geezer in the Hole”

Voices from Solitary: Letters from the Hole

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

Voices from Solitary: Surviving the “Prison Within a Prison”

Voices from Solitary: Growing Old in Isolation

Voices from Solitary: Your Imagination, But My Reality

Voices from Solitary: American Supermax

Voices from Solitary: Everyone Needs a Friend

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

Voices from Solitary: Phantom Souls

Voices from Solitary: We Are All Animals

Seven Days in Solitary [4.20.13]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/24/13]

Leaving Cañon City

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

Texas Lockdown: Solitary Confinement in the Lone Star State

Women in California Prison Isolation Units Face Overcrowding and Despair

Fates Worse Than Death?

Children Sentenced to Die in Prison

Inside ADX Supermax: “A Bloody Nightmare”

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

“Cruel Isolation”: Amnesty International Report Blasts Conditions in Arizona’s Prisons