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As they shelter in place to impede the spread of COVID-19, millions of Americans across the country have been given just a glimpse of the isolation, idleness, and deprivation faced by tens of thousands of incarcerated men, women, and children held in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers. Unlike those held in […]

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Three Ways to Reach Out to People in Actual Solitary Confinement

As COVID-19 Spreads Through Prisons, Solitary Confinement Is Used to Punish Whistleblowers and Suppress Protests

Prisons’ Use of Solitary Confinement Explodes with the COVID-19 Pandemic, While Advocates Push for Alternatives

Santa Was in Solitary and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Aging Alone: Uncovering the Risk of Solitary Confinement for People Over 45

Trump Wants to Bring Back Torture. For Thousands of Americans, It Never Went Away.

New Report Shows Devastating Impact of Solitary Confinement on Incarcerated People with Physical Disabilities

New Report Documents Devastating Effects of Solitary Confinement on Mental Illness

Chelsea Manning, No Stranger to Solitary Confinement, Faces Indefinite Isolation After Suicide Attempt

Solitary Confinement Out of Control in Florida Prisons

After 33 Years in Solitary Confinement, Former Black Panther Russell Shoatz Will Have His Day in Court

Legal Settlement Demands Better Mental Health Care, Less Solitary Confinement in Illinois Prisons

California Expects to Save $28 Million By Reducing Solitary Confinement

Presidential Prison Politics

Off the Block

Prison Watchdog Says Solitary Confinement in Canada Is “Out of Control”

Kafka and the Debate Over Solitary Confinement

Will Lawsuits and Exposés Lead to Reform of Florida’s Brutal Prisons?

Seven Days in Solitary [6/7/15]

New Report Documents Brutal Treatment of People with Mental Illness in U.S. Prisons and Jails

London Calling

American Outcasts: U.S. Prisons and Modern Day Banishment

UN Torture Investigator Barred from Visiting American Supermax Prisons

New Report Documents the “Waste, Cost and Harm” of Solitary Confinement in Texas

New Federal Supermax Prison Will Double Capacity for Extreme Solitary Confinement

Working from the Inside Out

Voices from Solitary: Freedom Shares My Cell

U.S. Government Tells UN: “No Systematic Use of Solitary Confinement in the United States”

UPDATED: From One North Carolina Prison, Reports of an Eight-Month Lockdown