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After some time off, we are reviving “The Word from Solitary Watch,” our monthly series of dispatches by Solitary Watch staff and contributors. • The mainstream media has traditionally gotten most of its information about what goes on inside prisons from corrections officials—government employees who feed stories to journalists, aimed at protecting the institution’s image. […]

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Trusted Sources: Why Mainstream Media Needs Incarcerated Voices

Seven Days in Solitary [2/17/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/9/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/26/19]

What Will It Take to End Solitary Confinement?

Advocates Join Forces to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons in the Next 10 Years

Prisons Use Solitary Confinement to Silence Strikers Nationwide—But Their Voices Have Been Heard

Voices from Solitary: Fly in the Ointment

Kalief Browder’s Life and Death Galvanize Action to End Solitary Confinement

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

For Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, A Year of Incremental Reform

Controversy Erupts at Public Meeting on New Rikers Island Isolation Units

On Rikers Island, an End to the Solitary Confinement of Children

News from the Hole: The Words of People in Solitary Confinement in America’s Prisons

New York City Officials and Advocates Push for Change to the “Culture of Brutality” on Rikers Island

Civil Rights Groups Demand Change for Transgender Women Held in Solitary in New York’s Prisons

Videos Show Brutal Treatment of Prisoners with Mental Illness

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/14]

New York Prisons Bar Media from Solitary Confinement Units

City’s New Corrections Chief, Known for Solitary Confinement Reforms, Faces Steep Challenges on Rikers

Way Down in the Hole: Senate Hearing Challenges Solitary Confinement for Some, But Not All

New York Lawmakers Introduce Bill to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement

As New York City Jails Amend Their Solitary Confinement Practices, Abuses on Rikers Island Continue

Solitary Confinement: Too Controversial for Costco

In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

Seven Days in Solitary [11/3/13]

Under Fire, Federal Bureau of Prisons Audits Use of Solitary Confinement—and Buys a New Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [10/13/13]

New Project: Photo Requests from Solitary