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Last week, men incarcerated at Ohio’s supermax prison, the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown, brought a month-long hunger strike to a close. Between 30 and 40 men had refused all meals since March 16 to protest new restrictions placed on already severely limited recreation and programming for those in solitary confinement. On Wednesday, April 15, […]

News & Features

At Ohio’s Supermax Prison, a Hunger Strike Ends But Extreme Isolation Remains

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by Vaidya Gullapalli

April 21, 2015

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [6/15/14]

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by Aviva Stahl

June 15, 2014

News & Features

Holder Makes Obama Administration’s First Public Statement on Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

May 24, 2014

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/7/14]

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by Aviva Stahl

April 6, 2014

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [3/16/14]

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by Aviva Stahl

March 16, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “This Massive Mind-Fuck Machine”

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by Voices from Solitary

January 5, 2014

News & Features

Twenty Years After the Lucasville Uprising, Trying to Tell the Story

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

April 16, 2013

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Guarding the Fortresses: How Prison Policies Limit Media Access to Solitary Confinement

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by Rachel M. Cohen

March 5, 2013

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Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in Ohio Stage Two-Week Hunger Strike

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by Hannah Taleb

June 5, 2012

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Ohio Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike for Transfer from Solitary to Death Row

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 5, 2011

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Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape Takes Her Case to the Supreme Court

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

November 2, 2010

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Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

May 3, 2010

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Dead Man Killing Himself

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by Jean Casella

March 9, 2010

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