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• The New York Daily News reported that prosecutors for the Bronx District Attorney will not pursue criminal charges related to the death of Layleen Polanco, a 27-year-old Afro-Latinx, transgender woman, last June. Polanco died from an epileptic seizure while being held in punitive segregation, or solitary confinement, at Rikers Island jail in New York […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Rikers Island

Fourteen Days in Solitary [6/8/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/27/20]

Local Jails Were Death Traps Even Before COVID-19. The Pandemic Demands Sweeping—and Permanent—Change.

Seven Days in Solitary [10/21/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/16/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/26/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/12/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/5/19]

Transgender Women of Color Face Crushing Rates of Incarceration, Solitary Confinement, and Abuse

Seven Days in Solitary [7/22/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/8/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/17/19]

How Solitary Confinement Can Lead to a Life Sentence in Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/13/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/6/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/29/19]

14 Journalists Awarded Grants from the Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

Seven Days in Solitary [2/25/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/28/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/30/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/23/18]

Voices from Solitary: Women Held in Isolation in New York Speak Out

Seven Days in Solitary [7/29/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/8/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/29/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/4/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/7/17]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/17/17]