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This article was written with the support of a Solitary Confinement Reporting Grant from Solitary Watch. It was originally published by New York Focus. . . . In late May, guards at Green Haven Correctional Facility, in Dutchess County, locked Rahkeem Brown in a room in the prison’s medical unit. The room had a mattress […]

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New York State Prisons

“Losing My Mind”: New York Prisons Are Holding People in “Shit Rooms” With No Running Water

Voices from Solitary: The Solace I Found in Mail

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/2022]

New York’s Oldest Supermax Prison Closes as State Prepares to Implement Law Limiting Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: What My Mother Doesn’t Know

“I Watch the Roaches and I Envy Them.” After 34 Years, Billy Blake Is Released from Solitary Confinement in New York

New York State Passes the Nation’s Strongest Anti-Solitary Legislation

“Ready to Return to Humanity” After 34 Years in Solitary Confinement

New York Supermax

Voices from Solitary: Sent to Solitary Confinement for Being Disabled

Suicidal in Solitary

Writer in Solitary Confinement Is Barred from Reading His Own Book

Voices from Solitary: Solitary Is a Living Death

Widespread Brutality and Solitary Confinement Followed New York Prison Escape, Report Finds

How the New Settlement Will—and Will Not—Change Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons (Redux)

How the Landmark Settlement Will—and Will Not—Change Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

Voices from Solitary: A Second-by-Second Attack on Your Soul

Voices from Solitary: Injury x Insult

With Loved Ones in Prison, Women Lead the Fight Against Solitary Confinement in New York

Legislation Limiting Solitary Confinement in New York Gains Momentum

Voices from Solitary: My Tranz Brothers and Sisters Are There, Boxed

Voices from Solitary: Is It Normal to Think That?

Voices from Solitary: A Mouse and a Murderer

Voices from Solitary: At War With My Own Self

Civil Rights Groups Demand Change for Transgender Women Held in Solitary in New York’s Prisons

Transgender Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Sexual Assault

Voices from Solitary: Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Transgender Women

Advisers to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hold Briefing on Juvenile Solitary Confinement in New York

New York Prisons Bar Media from Solitary Confinement Units