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MCI-Norfolk

Incarcerated writer James Keown has been composing a series, “Postcards From a Prison Pandemic,” about the coronavirus’s impact on the medium-security MCI-Norfolk in Massachusetts, where he has spent the past two decades. Here we include excerpts from three of his posts. First, writing in April, he compared bracing for the impact of coronavirus to watching an […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: Postcards From a Prison Pandemic

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by Voices from Solitary

July 1, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/1/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

April 1, 2018

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: Prison Staff Tried to Get Me to Betray a Friend Using Isolation and Intimidation

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by Voices from Solitary

January 15, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [1/29/2017]

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by Aviva Stahl

January 29, 2017

News & Features

Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 15, 2011

News & Features

Prison Whistleblower Condemned to Solitary Confinement

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 10, 2011

News & Features

Massachusetts Prisoner Who Exposed Sex-for-Snitching Ring Sent to Solitary

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by James Ridgeway

November 18, 2010

News & Features

Sex-for-Snitching Ring Reported at Massachusetts Prison

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by James Ridgeway

November 2, 2010

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