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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

Storm Over Rikers: Evacuating New York’s Island Jail

Videos Show Brutal Treatment of Prisoners with Mental Illness

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

New Project: Photo Requests from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Supermaxed Out in Colorado

Voices from Solitary: Ara Oshagan Photographs California Juvies

AFSC Seeks Stories of Isolation and Torture in U.S. Prisons

Voices from Solitary: New Memoir by Wilbert Rideau

Voices from Solitary: Colorado Department of Corrections in Need of Correction

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

Voices From Solitary: Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Was “the Only Way to Get the Word Out” About Prison Abuses

Voices from Solitary: Behind Enemy Lines

Voices from Solitary: Picturing Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “Extradition”

Voices from Solitary: Fly in the Ointment

Seven Days in Solitary [10/13/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/3/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/26/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/9/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/17/20]

Portrait of a Prison Whistleblower—and His Punishment

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

Journalists Barred from Prison Isolation Units

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

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

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

What Will It Take to End Solitary Confinement?