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Elizabeth Hawes is an award-winning prison writer and former editor of Reflector, the prison news magazine at Minnesota Correctional Institution (MCI)—Shakopee, where Hawes is serving her Life Without Parole sentence. In November 2020, Hawes won an award in the PEN America Prison Writing Contest. In 2018, Hawes completed the play Supernova, examining women’s incarceration and […]

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Incarcerated Women Are Punished for Their Trauma With Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

December 24, 2020

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Digging Our Way Out of the Hole: Keeping Prisons Safe Without Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

October 14, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

October 5, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Fourteen Days in Solitary [8/24/20]

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by Valerie Kiebala

August 25, 2020

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May 11, 2020

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March 2, 2020

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September 2, 2019

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How Solitary Confinement Can Lead to a Life Sentence in Prison

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by Abram Wolfe

June 11, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

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June 3, 2019

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by Valerie Kiebala

April 8, 2019

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by Valerie Kiebala

March 25, 2019

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by Valerie Kiebala

January 21, 2019

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October 14, 2018

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