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For Mother’s Day, we are reposting this article, originally published in November 2020. It was May 2020, and Esther Arias was finally going to be released from prison. For years of her 14-year sentence, she had held out hope that she would win her appeal and surprise her four kids one day by picking them […]

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“You Can Never Get That Time Back”: Solitary Confinement Is Devastating for Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children

After Nine Studies, Use of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons Just Keeps Increasing

Georgia Prison in “Flagrant” Violation of Solitary Reforms…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Georgia Jail Guard Used a Chain to Strangle a Man in a Solitary Cell…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Solitary Confinement…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Ninety Percent of Incarcerated Transgender People Report Experiencing Solitary Confinement…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Protests Build Against ICE’s Use of Solitary in Immigration Detention…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Settlement Reached on Mental Health Treatment at Pennsylvania Jail…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: Stillness Is My Nemesis

D.C. Department of Corrections Withholds Information on Use of Solitary in Jails…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

American Psychological Association Resolution Calls for Ban on Youth Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: At Attica, Hard Hearts and a Sliver of Hope

Black History in the United States Has Always Included Solitary Confinement

Federal Prisons Under Fire From Watchdogs Over Solitary, Suicides…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Report Shows Hundreds of Preventable Deaths in Federal Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New Study Finds ICE Locks Thousands of Immigrants in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

NY City Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto of Bill Banning Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Nebraska Holds Children in Prolonged Solitary in Defiance of State Law…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

NY Mayor Adams Vetoes Bill Banning Solitary in City Jails…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: You Have to Be There

Deaf People Face “Pervasive Mistreatment” in Las Vegas Jail…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Protests Against Long-Term Solitary Continue in Virginia…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Kids in Albuquerque Jail “Locked Down in Our Cells All Day Like a Animal in a Zoo”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Negligence in New Jersey Prison Led to Death at Christmas…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Santa Was in Solitary and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

New York City Council Moves to Ban Solitary on Rikers…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: On Hunger Strike in a Pennsylvania Prison

Report Documents the Solitary Confinement Crisis in Texas Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

U.S. Prison Deaths Increased by 77% in Covid-19 Pandemic…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week