San Quentin State Prison Archives

San Quentin State Prison

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 […]

Seven Days in Solitary

San Quentin State Prison

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

Seven Days in Solitary [11/2/2022]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/22/22]

How Not to Fight a Prison Pandemic [Update]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/24/21]

How Not to Fight a Prison Pandemic

At San Quentin, the Response to COVID-19 Brings More Isolation and Suffering to People with Mental Illness

The View from Badger Yard: Surviving in San Quentin with COVID-19

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/7/20]

Voices from Solitary: Fighting the Coronavirus in Prison with Transfers, Isolation, Threats, and Game Boys

Struggling to Survive at San Quentin: “We Are Dying in Here”

At San Quentin, a Desperate Man Goes on Hunger Strike to Protest Conditions in a COVID-19 Isolation Unit

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/20/20]

“Man Down:” Left in the Hole at San Quentin During a Coronavirus Crisis

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/6/20]

In San Quentin, Getting the Flu Can Land You in Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [6/24/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/11/18]