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The following poem comes from an inmate at Utah State Prison’s Draper supermax unit. Initially convicted of a non-violent drug offense, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison, he has been held in isolation for more than three years. He is also corresponding for an upcoming Solitary Watch article on the practice […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “The Isolated Prisoner”

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by Sal Rodriguez

February 18, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: From a Nevada Hole

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by Voices from Solitary

June 16, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “Thoughts of Freedom Running Wild in My Head”

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by Voices from Solitary

March 31, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “Where Cold, Quiet and Emptiness Come Together”

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by Voices from Solitary

March 16, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “You Are Solitary Confinement”

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by Voices from Solitary

May 1, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Solitary Confinement’s Invisible Scars

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by Voices from Solitary

October 31, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “A Prison Where the Building Becomes the Shackles”

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by Voices from Solitary

November 27, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “Finally Out and Among the Living”

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by Voices from Solitary

November 29, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Thin Comfort

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by Voices from Solitary

December 20, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: 13.5 Square Feet

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by Voices from Solitary

June 20, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part III

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by Voices from Solitary

March 3, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part IV

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by Voices from Solitary

March 25, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part V

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by Voices from Solitary

March 31, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: What Have You Done to My Brother?

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by Voices from Solitary

August 27, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Heaviness of Blood

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by Voices from Solitary

October 31, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Fly in the Ointment

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by Voices from Solitary

July 13, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Segregation Medical

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by Voices from Solitary

July 28, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: What Decades of Isolation Do to the Mind and Body

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by Voices from Solitary

October 3, 2017

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Flipping the Script

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by Voices from Solitary

September 30, 2020

Voices from Solitary

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

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by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

December 14, 2021

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/13/13]

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by Jean Casella

October 13, 2013

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [12/29/13]

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by Lisa Dawson

December 29, 2013

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [2/16/14]

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by Aviva Stahl

February 16, 2014

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [3/18/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

March 18, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [6/3/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

June 3, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/28/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

October 28, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [11/4/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

November 4, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [2/25/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

February 25, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [6/3/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

June 3, 2019

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