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This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: Five incarcerated people have filed a class-action lawsuit demanding an end to the “damaging and degrading” use of solitary confinement in Oregon state prisons. According to the lawsuit, the state’s solitary practices violate both its constitution and disability rights laws. Earlier this year, the Oregon […]

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Class-Action Lawsuit Challenges Oregon’s Use of Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

UPDATED: Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention in 2026

There Are No Monsters: A Poem for the Women in Solitary Confinement

The Weight of Watching: How Prisons Turn Traumatized Women Into Unpaid Crisis Workers

Texas Places Woman in Solitary for Prison Cat Fundraiser…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

In “The Alabama Solution,” Incarcerated Filmmakers Face Punishment for Exposing the Truth…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Former U.S. Representative George Santos Held in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Why Prisons Must Be Ground Zero for Suicide Prevention

Joe Rogan Left “Speechless” by Survivor’s Account of Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: Inside the Hole

The Jailhouse Lawyer: Fighting Abuse and Forced Medication at Angola Prison

Voices from Solitary: Fighting for Everyone’s Liberation

Beyond The Rainbow: Remembering Our Most Forgotten

Voices from Solitary: Crawling Out of the Darkness, Part 2

Voices from Solitary: Crawling Out of the Darkness, Part 1

Witnessing the Solitary-to-Cemetery Pipeline

When Freedom Still Feels Like Prison

Surviving Solitary

Voices from Solitary: My Darkest Night in Solitary Gave Me the Strength to Fight Back

Voices from Solitary: The Toll Isolation Takes

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention Warns of Growth Under Trump

Men Were Held in “the Hole” Without Light or Heat in a Pennsylvania Prison…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New York Mayor Sued for Blocking Solitary Confinement Ban…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Negligence in New Jersey Prison Led to Death at Christmas…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Hunger Strike in a Massachusetts Prison Targets Isolation and Abuse…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: What My Mother Doesn’t Know

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