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Guest Post by Lance Tapley In 1986 Ojore Lutalo, a black revolutionary in the Trenton State Prison — now the New Jersey State Prison — wrote to Bonnie Kerness’s American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) office in Newark. His letter described the extreme isolation and other brutalities in the prison’s Management Control Unit, which he called a “prison […]

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Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

November 8, 2012

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