"Witness to Human Torture": On Both Sides of the Prison Walls, Social Workers Confront Solitary Confinement

November 3, 2017November 30, 2017 Valerie Kiebala

Esther Lim, a social worker employed by the ACLU to monitor LA County jails, was meeting with an incarcerated man in an attorney meeting room in 2011 when she heard what sounded like a fight. She looked through a window to see two deputies repeatedly beating an incarcerated man, James Parker, and shocking him with […]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/7/14]

April 6, 2014October 19, 2015 Aviva Stahl

The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • Home Secretary Theresa May is again pressing the British High Court to allow the extradition of Haroon Aswat to the United States. Last year, the European Court of […]

Solitary Watch

By Jean Casella and James Ridgeway | December 1, 2020

Mary Buser

Seven Days in Solitary [4/7/14]