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Mental Illness

New from Solitary Watch: • Our Voices from Solitary series features a new piece by Dennis Hope, who was placed in solitary in Texas in 1994. After more than a quarter century in isolation and years of litigation, in January 2022, he asked the Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of solitary “measured in decades, rather than weeks, […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Mental Illness

Seven Days in Solitary [12/21/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/14/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/2022]

New Fact Sheet Documents the Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [9/22/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/24/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/6/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/29/22]

Voices From Solitary: Solitary Poems

New Solitary Watch Fact Sheet Series Launches with “Racism and Solitary Confinement”

Voices from Solitary: Holler with Haiku

Seven Days in Solitary [6/1/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/4/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/27/22]

Incarcerated People of Color with Mental Illness Get Less Treatment and More Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [4/6/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/23/22]

Voices from Solitary: What My Mother Doesn’t Know

Seven Days in Solitary [10/6/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/25/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/19/21]

A Month in Solitary [5/3/21]

Six Weeks in Solitary [4/5/21]

At San Quentin, the Response to COVID-19 Brings More Isolation and Suffering to People with Mental Illness

In New York, Few Resources for Solitary Confinement Survivors After Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [1/18/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/11/20]

Voices from Solitary: Flashes from Hell

Incarcerated Women Are Punished for Their Trauma With Solitary Confinement