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Dwayne “Bim” Staats is currently incarcerated at the Delaware supermax facility James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. Staats has served 22 years of a life sentence, and has spent 17 years in solitary confinement in prisons across Pennsylvania and Delaware. In the following piece, Staats recounts a situation in which he and other men were trapped […]

Voices from Solitary

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Voices from Solitary: When Toxic Fumes Turned My Solitary Cell into a Death Trap

Voices from Solitary: We Treated POWs Better Than This

Voices from Solitary: Postpartum in a Cage

Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration

Voices from Solitary: Living in a California SHU

“It’s Like a Slow War, Like a Slow Burn. Like a Slow, Quiet Form of Torture.”

Seven Days in Solitary [2/8/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/23/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/9/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/26/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/19/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/12/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/20]

Voices from Solitary: Flipping the Script

Seven Days in Solitary [9/7/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/10/20]

In San Quentin, Getting the Flu Can Land You in Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [3/2/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/24/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/17/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/10/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/27/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/20/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/4/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/21/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/14/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/23/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/29/19]

Solitary Confinement Caused “Complete Mental and Physical Collapse” of Man in Virginia Prison, Lawsuit Contends