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mental health effects of solitary confinement

New from Solitary Watch: • Angela Hattery and Earl Smith share an excerpt from their groundbreaking new book “Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement.” In this book, Hattery and Smith reveal the ways in which the structure of solitary confinement produces and fuels the conditions of […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/19/22]

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by Caitlin Konya

October 19, 2022

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Voices From Solitary: Restless Nights

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by Voices from Solitary

March 18, 2016

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by Lisa Dawson

November 17, 2013

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Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 4, 2011

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