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Joseph Dole is currently serving a life sentence without parole at Tamms state supermax prison in Illinois. For the past eight years, he has been in solitary confinement (under conditions described by Dole himself here, and detailed in recent newspaper exposés here and here). His writing has been honored by the PEN American Center’s Prison Writing Contest and appears […]

Voices from Solitary

Prison Health Care

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

Mentally Ill Inmate Starves to Death in Utah Jail

Solitary Watch Fact Sheet: Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement

Maine Cuts Supermax Population, Reforms Solitary Confinement Practices

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

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

Voices from Solitary: A Mother’s Story

Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

Prisoner Grievances: “The System for Going Up Against the System”

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

Bill to Limit Solitary Confinement Introduced in Colorado Legislature

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

The Scott Sisters’ “Debt to Society” and the New Jim Crow

James Ridgeway Interviewed on Release of Scott Sisters

After 16 Years Behind Bars for an $11 Robbery, the Scott Sisters Will Be Free at Last

Georgia Prisoners’ Strike: “We locked ourselves down.”

“Fatal Flaws” in the Colorado Solitary Confinement Study

No Charges in Maine Prison Death

Suicide and Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Scott Sisters Case Wins National Attention

How to Create Madness in Prison

A Chance at Freedom for the Scott Sisters?

Another Prisoner With Mental Illness Dies in Isolation

Voices from Solitary: “Geezer in the Hole”

Psychiatrists on Solitary Confinement

Life and Death in Pennsylvania’s Solitary Confinement Cells

Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical Ethics”

“Epidemic” of Suicides in Massachusetts Prisons