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• The North Carolina Health News reported that Mecklenburg County jail has opened its first psychiatric unit, as a voluntary therapeutic alternative to solitary confinement for people with mental illness. Sergeant Charles Pearson said, “Some of them… they can’t function in another pod, they can’t be around a lot of people, they can’t follow orders. They […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/14/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

October 14, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/20/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

April 22, 2020

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Seven Days in Solitary [5/11/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

May 11, 2020

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Seven Days in Solitary [9/7/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

September 8, 2020

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Seven Days in Solitary [9/14/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

September 17, 2020

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Seven Days in Solitary [9/21/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

September 24, 2020

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Seven Days in Solitary [9/28/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

September 29, 2020

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Seven Days in Solitary [10/27/21]

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by Roxanne Barnes

October 28, 2021

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Writer in Solitary Confinement Is Barred from Reading His Own Book

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by Sarah Blatt-Herold

September 20, 2016

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Book Bans Reveal What Prison Officials Ignore and What They Fear

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by Vaidya Gullapalli

September 26, 2019

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“Man Down:” Left in the Hole at San Quentin During a Coronavirus Crisis

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by Juan Moreno Haines

July 7, 2020

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Struggling to Survive at San Quentin: “We Are Dying in Here”

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by Juan Moreno Haines

August 14, 2020

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News from the Hole: The Words of People in Solitary Confinement in America’s Prisons

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by James Ridgeway

September 4, 2014

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