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The Memory Disorder Unit at Federal Medical Center Devens is the first federal facility built to house incarcerated people with Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. According to Timothy Doherty, a senior officer specialist who helps run the unit, approximately 90 percent of the unit’s population “don’t know what they did. Some of them […]

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Prison Health Care

The Agony of Living with Dementia Behind Bars…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: Prison Lockdowns and the Forgotten COVID Casualties

Voices from Solitary: Head Cases

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

A Lonely–and Preventable–Death in a Vermont Prison

COVID-Fueled Solitary Confinement Still Plagues Prisons and Jails

Voices from Solitary: Coyote Calling

Voices from Solitary: “Geezer in the Hole”

Voices from Solitary: A Mother’s Story

Voices from Solitary: “An Insane Asylum Disguised As an SMU”

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Voices From Solitary: Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Was “the Only Way to Get the Word Out” About Prison Abuses

Voices from Solitary: “We Will Not Stop Until We Are Heard”

Voices from Solitary: “Death Row Diary” of Florida Man Scheduled to Die Tonight

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

Voices from Solitary: “Mind Blowing Because I’m a Kid”

Voices from Solitary: Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Transgender Women

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

Voices from Solitary: Cycle of Despair

Voices from Solitary: Segregation Medical

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Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)