Security Housing Unit (SHU) Archives

Security Housing Unit (SHU)

The following book review, written by Juan Moreno Haines, was originally published in Wall City Magazine. About ten years ago, while working at San Quentin News, I began writing about incarcerated people subjected to solitary confinement in California. My stories covered both Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, the SHU (pronounced “shoe”), and San Quentin State […]

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Security Housing Unit (SHU)

When Isolation Became the Supreme Punishment

When Freedom Still Feels Like Prison

Voices from Solitary: Polluted Waters

Seven Days in Solitary [1/4/20]

Voices from Solitary: Flipping the Script

Seven Days in Solitary [9/14/20]

Inside the Hole: Enduring Solitary Confinement in California

Seven Days in Solitary [5/25/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/18/20]

Voices from Solitary: Message from a Solitary Confinement Survivor for People Under Self-Quarantine

Seven Days in Solitary [4/13/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/26/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/22/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/3/19]

Voices from Solitary: Six by Ten

Voices from Solitary: I Am Enduring

Seven Days in Solitary [10/21/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/30/18]

Voices from Solitary: A Concrete Death

Seven Days in Solitary [8/5/18]

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

Seven Days in Solitary [7/22/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/24/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/12/17]