Solitary Watch

San Quentin

I first met James Daly when covering a story for San Quentin News about what it meant to be a youth mentor at this prison. He told me a story about arriving here from his previous prison, which had a service dog training program. He was torn, but happy to be part of the youth […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Slow Drift Into the Abyss

by Voices from Solitary

October 7, 2024

News & Features Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Legacy of Black August at San Quentin Prison

by Voices from Solitary

August 30, 2024

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Freedom of Movement

by Voices from Solitary

September 11, 2023

Seven Days in Solitary

Report Documents Flagrant Violations of New York Solitary Reform Law…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

March 29, 2023

News & Features

Here in San Quentin, I See Why Solitary Confinement Must End

by Juan Moreno Haines

October 25, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [7/6/22]

by Roxanne Barnes

July 6, 2022

News & Features

Why Lockdowns Can’t Protect People in Prison From Deadly Viruses

by Annalena Wolcke

June 15, 2021

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/8/2017]

by Valerie Kiebala

October 8, 2017

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [7/09/2017]

July 9, 2017

News & Features

In California Death Row’s “Adjustment Center,” Condemned Men Wait in Solitary Confinement

by Alyssa Stryker

April 13, 2016

News & Features

Day 36 of California Hunger Strike: Hundreds Still Protesting Isolation Policies

by Sal Rodriguez

August 12, 2013

News & Features

“Occupy” Prison Protests in California Oppose Use of Solitary Confinement

by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 21, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Loneliness and Solitude

by Sal Rodriguez

October 1, 2011

News & Features

Cash-Strapped California to Spend $500 Million for New “Condemned Inmate Complex” (Death Row)

by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 20, 2010