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New this week from Solitary Watch: • Solitary Watch reports on the latest Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities, data collected by the federal government’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), reports 75,505 people were held in solitary confinement in state and federal prisons in 2019. This was the first BJS census to ask prisons […]

Seven Days in Solitary

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Seven Days in Solitary [6/22/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/8/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/11/2016]

With New Report, Prison Officials Commit to Reducing Their Use of Solitary Confinement

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

After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

Kalief Browder’s Life and Death Galvanize Action to End Solitary Confinement

Federal Judge Orders Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Released After 43 Years in Solitary

Law Aimed at Silencing People Convicted of Crimes Is Declared Unconstitutional

After 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Will the Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Be a Free Man?

Transgender Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Sexual Assault

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/14]

Advisers to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hold Briefing on Juvenile Solitary Confinement in New York

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

Voices from Solitary: 23 and 1

At Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons, Advocates Challenge “Reforms”

New Campaign Highlights Post-9/11 Civil and Human Rights Abuses on American Soil

“This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse”: An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

Prison Segregation and Racial Disparities

One Month After Historic Hunger Strike, California Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

After 41 Years in Solitary, a Dying Herman Wallace Has His Conviction Overturned—-and Is Freed

Members of Congress Call for Investigation of Louisiana’s Use of Solitary Confinement, Treatment of Angola 3

Angola 3’s Herman Wallace, Gravely Ill, Still Held in Isolation

Russell Maroon Shoatz: Resisting the “Spiritual Death” of Solitary Confinement

To See or Not to See: Capturing Herman Wallace’s 41 Years in Solitary

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 “Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement”

The Hidden History of Solitary Confinement in New Jersey’s Control Units

California Assembly Reviews Solitary Confinement Policies As Prisoners Threaten New Hunger Strike

Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement