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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

Solitary Confinement

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

Seven Days in Solitary [4/27/22]

Seven Days In Solitary [4/20/22]

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

Seven Days In Solitary [4/13/22]

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

Seven Days in Solitary [11/8/2015]

Will Revamped Prison Regulations Reduce Solitary Confinement in California?

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

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

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

New Solitary Watch Print Edition

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

Prisoner at Corcoran State Prison Commits Suicide in Solitary

Solitary Confinement in Great Britain: Still Harsh, But Rare

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

Maine Prison Whistleblower Exiled and Isolated

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

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

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

A Lonely–and Preventable–Death in a Vermont Prison

New Feature: Milestones in Solitary Reform

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

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

James Ridgeway, 1936–2021

How to Survive Supermax

Opening the Door

Off the Block

How Britain Does Supermax