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• The Hill reports that four states voted last month to remove language that allows slavery as punishment for a crime from their state constitutions. Now, advocates are seeking to pass the Abolition Amendment, which would fully abolish slavery at the federal level. Bianca Tylek, executive director of Worth Rises, told The Hill that incarcerated […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Mississippi

Seven Days in Solitary [12/7/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/27/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/18/21]

D.C. Jail: From Hellhole to Hotspot

Seven Days in Solitary [1/13/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/2/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/22/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/22/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/18/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/31/17]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/26/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]

In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

Children in Solitary

Solitary Confinement in New York (and in the New York Times)

New Ban on Solitary Confinement for Child Prisoners in Mississippi

ACLU Takes a Strong Stand Against Solitary Confinement

The Scott Sisters’ “Debt to Society” and the New Jim Crow

James Ridgeway Interviewed on Release of Scott Sisters

After 16 Years Behind Bars for an $11 Robbery, the Scott Sisters Will Be Free at Last

Scott Sisters Case Wins National Attention

A Chance at Freedom for the Scott Sisters?

Voices from Solitary: Katfish on Life in “The Bucket”

No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confinement

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Saving Jamie Scott, Victim of Prison Health Care

For Jamie Scott, an $11 Robbery in Mississippi May Carry a Death Sentence