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Elizabeth Hawes is an award-winning prison writer and former editor of Reflector, the prison news magazine at Minnesota Correctional Institution (MCI)—Shakopee, where Hawes is serving her Life Without Parole sentence. In November 2020, Hawes won an award in the PEN America Prison Writing Contest. In 2018, Hawes completed the play Supernova, examining women’s incarceration and […]

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Incarcerated Women Are Punished for Their Trauma With Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/20/20]

A Watershed Year in the Movement to Stop Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [8/12/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/8/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/17/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/3/19]

14 Journalists Awarded Grants from the Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

Seven Days in Solitary [2/4/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/30/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/12/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/8/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/24/17]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/28/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [03/26/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/5/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/12/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/29/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/25/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/11/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/04/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/17/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/13/2015]