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Solitary Confinement

In May 2021, Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania became the first jurisdiction in the United States to ban nearly all uses of solitary confinement by a referendum of the county’s voters, following years of abuse allegations and multiple suicides at the county jail. The new policy was supposed to go into effect in December, but, as […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: An Open Letter from the Allegheny County Jail

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by Voices from Solitary

April 27, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4/27/22]

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by Roxanne Barnes

April 27, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days In Solitary [4/20/22]

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by Mirilla Zhu

April 20, 2022

News & Features

Incarcerated People of Color with Mental Illness Get Less Treatment and More Solitary Confinement

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by Melat Eskender

April 22, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days In Solitary [4/13/22]

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by Mirilla Zhu

April 13, 2022

SW Reports

Solitary Watch Partners With Advocacy Groups on First Report Exposing Solitary Confinement in Nevada

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by Jean Casella

February 14, 2017

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [11/8/2015]

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by Vaidya Gullapalli

November 8, 2015

News & Features

Will Revamped Prison Regulations Reduce Solitary Confinement in California?

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by Sal Rodriguez

June 30, 2015

News & Features

American Outcasts: U.S. Prisons and Modern Day Banishment

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by James Ridgeway

April 24, 2015

News & Features

Pope Francis Denounces Solitary Confinement, Calls for Prison Conditions That “Respect Human Dignity”

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by Jean Casella

October 26, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part II

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by Voices from Solitary

February 24, 2014

News & Features

New Solitary Watch Print Edition

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 8, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “It Has Zapped Me Of My Personality”

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by Voices from Solitary

October 21, 2012

News & Features

Prisoner at Corcoran State Prison Commits Suicide in Solitary

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by Sal Rodriguez

October 19, 2012

News & Features

Solitary Confinement in Great Britain: Still Harsh, But Rare

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by Elisa Mosler

January 19, 2012

News & Features

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 30, 2011

News & Features

Maine Prison Whistleblower Exiled and Isolated

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 3, 2011

News & Features

A Suspicious (and Lonely) Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

March 19, 2010

News & Features

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 20, 2010

News & Features

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 17, 2010

News & Features

A Lonely–and Preventable–Death in a Vermont Prison

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

January 4, 2010

SW Reports

New Feature: Milestones in Solitary Reform

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by Jean Casella

October 17, 2015

Photo Requests from Solitary

“Photo Requests from Solitary” Comes to the Brooklyn Public Library

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by Jean Casella

March 27, 2019

SW Book

Now Available—Our New Book: The First Collection of Voices from Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 4, 2016

News & Features

James Ridgeway, 1936–2021

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by Jean Casella

February 17, 2021

Ridgeway Reporting Project

How to Survive Supermax

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

June 20, 2020

News & Features

Opening the Door

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by Jean Casella

April 29, 2016

News & Features

Off the Block

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by Jean Casella

October 21, 2015

News & Features

How Britain Does Supermax

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by Aviva Stahl

October 21, 2015

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