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It was Gay Pride weekend in New York City, but the event’s celebratory spirit was absent from Michelle Scott’s tidy second-floor apartment on a leafy street near Brooklyn College. Her child, Carey Smith, is a transgender woman currently locked up in solitary confinement in Upstate Correctional Facility, a men’s supermax prison located in the Adirondacks. […]

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Solitary Confinement

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

Seven Days in Solitary [6/29/14]

Prayers for People in Solitary Confinement

What It Means to Be Human: A Philosopher’s Argument Against Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [6/22/14]

In a Maryland Jail, Teens Charged As Adults Face Isolation and Neglect

Seven Days in Solitary [6/15/14]

Voices from Solitary: 23 and 1

Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]

Voices from Solitary: Playing “The Con Game” at Pelican Bay

The Odyssey to Pelican Bay: Families Journey to California’s Notorious Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [6/1/14]

Voices from Solitary, Analyzing Isolation, Part III