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UPDATE (September 18, 2014): Solitary Watch received the following statement via email from North Carolina Department of Public Safety spokesperson Keith Acree: The evolving lockdown situation at Scotland Correctional Institution has affected about 600 inmates in close custody regular population housing. The medium custody (~540) and minimum custody (~240) populations have not been affected nor have […]

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UPDATED: From One North Carolina Prison, Reports of an Eight-Month Lockdown

Seven Days in Solitary [9/07/2014]

News from the Hole: The Words of People in Solitary Confinement in America’s Prisons

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

Seven Days in Solitary [8/31/14]

Pennsylvania Prison System Faces Lawsuit Over Suicide of Young Man with Mental Illness

Voices from Solitary: What Have You Done to My Brother?

Seven Days in Solitary [8/24/2014]

New York City Officials and Advocates Push for Change to the “Culture of Brutality” on Rikers Island

Civil Rights Groups Demand Change for Transgender Women Held in Solitary in New York’s Prisons

Seven Days in Solitary [8/17/2014]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/10/2014]

Transgender Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Sexual Assault

Voices from Solitary: Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Transgender Women

What Solitary Confinement Does to the Human Brain

Seven Days in Solitary [8/3/2014]

Videos Show Brutal Treatment of Prisoners with Mental Illness

Voices from Solitary: Testimony of a Jailhouse Lawyer

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/14]

Voices from Solitary: Reach Out

New Report Highlights Extreme Isolation Endured by Terrorism Suspects

Seven Days in Solitary [7/20/14]

Federal Supermax Prison “in Violation of International Law”: Amnesty International

Advisers to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hold Briefing on Juvenile Solitary Confinement in New York

Seven Days in Solitary [7/13/14]

Ninety Years Old, Deaf, and in the Hole in a Florida Prison

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

Seven Days in Solitary [7/6/2014]

New Solitary Confinement Policies in California Bring Small Changes and Raise Big Questions