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• The Tacoma News Tribune reported that immigrants detained at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC), an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Tacoma, Washington, have engaged in hunger strikes to protest separation from their children, inhumane conditions at the facility, and a forced labor program, among other concerns. Two of the hunger strikers, one of […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [9/23/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

September 23, 2018

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

May 19, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “Geezer in the Hole”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

September 18, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

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by Voices from Solitary

June 11, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

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by Voices from Solitary

June 28, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “Mind Blowing Because I’m a Kid”

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by Voices from Solitary

April 7, 2014

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

June 10, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [8/19/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

August 19, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/15/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

April 15, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/29/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

April 29, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [11/18/19]

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by Valerie Kiebala

November 18, 2019

News & Features

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

March 1, 2011

News & Features

DC’s Youth Face Solitary Confinement in District Jails and Federal Prisons

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by Abby Taskier

December 19, 2013

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Prisons Use Solitary Confinement to Silence Strikers Nationwide—But Their Voices Have Been Heard

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by Valerie Kiebala and Jean Casella

October 1, 2018

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Children Sentenced to Die in Prison

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

January 30, 2010

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The Other Death Sentence: Aging and Dying in Prison

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 26, 2012

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No Obama Budget Freeze for Prisons

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 22, 2010

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Incarceration Nation

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 15, 2010

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“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

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by James Ridgeway

July 28, 2011

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U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

July 8, 2010

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Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

July 11, 2010

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How to Create Madness in Prison

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

September 23, 2010

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For Jamie Scott, an $11 Robbery in Mississippi May Carry a Death Sentence

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

March 5, 2010

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What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 10, 2011

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

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 21, 2012

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Solitary Confinement in Virginia’s Prisons

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 9, 2012

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Groups Urge Holder to Clean House at the Bureau of Prisons

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

May 19, 2011

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No Budget Cuts for Federal Prisons

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 13, 2011

News & Features

The Scott Sisters’ “Debt to Society” and the New Jim Crow

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by James Ridgeway

January 7, 2011

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