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This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: Joshua McLemore, a 29-year-old man who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, died of starvation after being held naked and alone in a padded isolation cell at Indiana’s Jackson County Jail. A complaint filed in federal court alleges that the jail violated McLemore’s Fourteenth Amendment rights and […]

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Man With Schizophrenia Starves to Death in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

These Labor Unions Are Fighting to Keep Solitary Confinement

New Solitary Watch Fact Sheet Series Launches with “Racism and Solitary Confinement”

Seven Days in Solitary [4/27/22]

Incarcerated People of Color with Mental Illness Get Less Treatment and More Solitary Confinement

New York’s Oldest Supermax Prison Closes as State Prepares to Implement Law Limiting Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [9/29/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/23/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/9/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/3/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/11/18]

New York Supermax

Seven Days in Solitary [12/10/17]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/12/17]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/1/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/04/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/19/2015]

Prison Segregation and Racial Disparities