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• USA Today published an opinion piece by solitary survivors Johnny Perez, Jack Morris, and Pamela Winn, all of whom now advocate for the rights of incarcerated people. All three recounted their own experiences being trapped in prison for the holidays. Perez, the director of the U.S. Prisons Program at the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Louisiana State Penitentiary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/28/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/21/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/3/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/25/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/27/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/6/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/30/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/9/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/29/19]

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

Seven Days in Solitary [7/13/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/13/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [09/11/2017]

At Louisiana’s Angola Prison, Lawsuit Claims, the Sick Face Neglect, Isolation, and Death

Members of Congress Call for Investigation of Louisiana’s Use of Solitary Confinement, Treatment of Angola 3

Seven Days in Solitary [6/16/13]

Voices from Solitary: The Louder My Voice the Deeper They Bury Me

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 “Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement”

40 Years in Solitary: New BBC Program on the Angola 3 Case

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

Angola 3 Mark 39 Years in Solitary Confinement

Angola Prison May Close Lockdown Unit–But Vows to Keep Inmates in Isolation

John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

Our Father Who Art in Prison

Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude

Voices from Solitary: New Memoir by Wilbert Rideau

Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners

ACLU Gets One Angola Prisoner Released from Solitary