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• According to the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), nine people held at Scotland Correctional Institution in North Carolina, calling themselves the Scotland 9, have been hunger striking for nearly a month since July 31. The strikers are calling for recreation to be re-instated, increased allowance of phone calls, an end to sleep deprivation practices, and […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Rikers Island

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]

“Witness to Human Torture”: On Both Sides of the Prison Walls, Social Workers Confront Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [7/02/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/25/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/21/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/07/2017]