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Louisiana Department of Corrections

The following is an excerpt from the report Louisiana on Lockdown, published this past June in a collaboration between Solitary Watch, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans, with Solitary Watch’s Katie Rose Quandt as the lead author. For the report, the authors conducted the largest survey ever made […]

SW Reports

Louisiana on Lockdown: The History of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana

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by Katie Rose Quandt

September 12, 2019

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “Worse Than Angola”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 5, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: I Spent 16 Months in Solitary Confinement, and Now I’m Fighting to End It

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by Voices from Solitary

July 18, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [5/13/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

May 13, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [5/20/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

May 20, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [8/10/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

August 12, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [9/21/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

September 24, 2020

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