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New this week from Solitary Watch: In the latest piece from the Ridgeway Reporting Project, Nicholas Brooks, a writer currently incarcerated at Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York, examines forced prison labor within the state’s Department of Corrections and across the United States. While incarcerated at Sullivan Correctional Facility, Brooks worked in the prison’s […]

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Trump Plans to Restore Alcatraz…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Ending the “Last Vestiges of Slavery” in New York

When Freedom Still Feels Like Prison

Voices from Solitary: My Darkest Night in Solitary Gave Me the Strength to Fight Back

New York Suspends Solitary Reforms in Deal to End Prison Strike…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New York Corrections Officers’ Wildcat Strike Targets Law Limiting Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New High-Security Unit on Rikers May Violate Solitary Confinement Law…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Trump Order Will Force Transgender Women to Be Housed in Men’s Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Pattern of Beatings and Solitary Preceded Deadly New York Prison Assault…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Men Were Held in “the Hole” Without Light or Heat in a Pennsylvania Prison…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New York Mayor Sued for Blocking Solitary Confinement Ban…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Sexual Abuse, Medical Neglect, and Prolonged Solitary Reported in ICE Facility…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

People with Mental Illness on Rikers Locked in Solitary and Denied Treatment…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

How New York’s Maximum-Security Women’s Prison Has Failed to HALT Solitary Confinement

Immigrant Detainees in Pennsylvania Face Solitary, Racism, and Abuse…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Tennessee Woman Forced to Give Birth Alone in Jail Cell Toilet…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Pregnant Women in Prison Face Abuse and Isolation…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Where Does Kamala Harris Stand on Ending Solitary?…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Men Held in Solitary in Massachusetts File Lawsuit Against “Oppressive Conditions”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Most Immigrant Deaths in ICE Detention Were Preventable…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New York Prisons Violate Solitary Confinement Law…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Transgender Voices from Prison Describe Abuse and Isolation…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Lawsuit Accuses New York Prisons of Illegally Putting Disabled People in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Georgia Jail Guard Used a Chain to Strangle a Man in a Solitary Cell…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Protests Build Against ICE’s Use of Solitary in Immigration Detention…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: At Attica, Hard Hearts and a Sliver of Hope

Negligence in New Jersey Prison Led to Death at Christmas…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New York City Council Moves to Ban Solitary on Rikers…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Report Documents the Solitary Confinement Crisis in Texas Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week