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Solitary Confinement

The following essay comes from Brian Nelson, who spent 12 years in solitary confinement in Tamms supermax prison in Illinois. Released in 2010, he now works at the Uptown People’s Law Center, which has been instrumental in the battle to close Tamms–a battle that has at last proved successful. Some prisoners have already been moved out […]

Voices from Solitary

Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Loneliness and Faith at Christmastime

Voices from Solitary: Haunted by Memory’s Ghosts

Voices from Solitary: Growing Old in Isolation

Scarred by Solitary: Experiencing Prison Isolation As a Kid

Voices from Solitary: The Louder My Voice the Deeper They Bury Me

Voices from Solitary: “Where Cold, Quiet and Emptiness Come Together”

Voices from Solitary: “Extradition”

Voices from Solitary: What Solitary Confinement Does to the Mind

Voices from Solitary: Disciplined Into Madness and Death

Voices from Solitary: “Suicide Is Preferable to Long-Term Segregation”

Voices from Solitary: Your Imagination, But My Reality

Voices from Solitary: The Loneliest Place in the World

Voices from Solitary: Suffering at the Hands of Other Human Beings

Voices from Solitary: Parts of My Mind Did Not Survive

Voices from Solitary: “You Are Solitary Confinement”

Voices from Solitary: “Death Row Diary” of Florida Man Scheduled to Die Tonight

Voices from Solitary: The Torture Chamber

Voices from Solitary: 13.5 Square Feet

Voices from Solitary: American Supermax

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Voices from Solitary: Everyone Needs a Friend

Voices from Solitary: Welcome to the SHU

Voices from Solitary: “I Live Each Day Contemplating Death”

Voices from Solitary: Life in H-Unit, ADX Federal Supermax

Voices from Solitary: Thin Comfort

Voices from Solitary: “A Prison Where the Building Becomes the Shackles”

Voices from Solitary: “Finally Out and Among the Living”

Voices from Solitary: “This Massive Mind-Fuck Machine”

Voices from Solitary: This Place Is Nothing More Than a Torture Chamber