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Youth at the Baltimore County Detention Center have been locked in squalid, rat-infested cells for 23 hours a day, according to a letter from the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. Youth are not separated from adults at the facility and students with disabilities are not afforded individualized educational plans, in violation of federal law. The […]

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Mental Illness

Kids Locked Up Alone in Filthy Cells at Baltimore County Jail…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Video Exposes Force Feeding at ADX Florence…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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]