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Solitary Confinement

• An editorial in Tuesday’s Washington Post carries the headline: “Solitary confinement is torture. U.S. prisons should stop using it.” Citing solitary’s devastating psychological harms, the piece notes that progress in reducing solitary “is encouraging but piecemeal—and would benefit from federal leadership” from the White House. To date, the piece is the strongest statement against solitary […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [9/7/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/22/22]

Voices from Solitary: Prison Lockdowns and the Forgotten COVID Casualties

Seven Days in Solitary [9/13/22]

Voices from Solitary: Books Are a Spark in the Dark

Seven Days in Solitary [8/31/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/17/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/24/22]

Seven Days in Solitary 8/10/22

Voices from Solitary: “As Real As It Honestly and Truthfully Gets”

Fourteen Days in Solitary [8/3/21]

Arkansas to Add More Prison Beds Using Budget Surplus from Federal COVID Funds

Voices from Solitary: Head Cases

“Immersive and Transformative” Play About Solitary Confinement Tours the Country

Seven Days in Solitary [7/6/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/29/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/4/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/18/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/25/22]

Voices From Solitary: Solitary Poems

Long-Awaited Prison Census Shows More Than 75,000 People in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Holler with Haiku

UPDATE: Advocates Respond to New Executive Order, Urge Biden to Take Far Bolder Steps to End Federal Solitary Confinement

The Word: The Myth of Safety Through Punishment

Voices from Solitary: “Loneliness Is a Destroyer of Humanity”

New Executive Order Includes Solitary Confinement Reforms, but Falls Short of Biden’s Campaign Promise

Seven Days in Solitary [5/11/22]

Voices from Solitary: Living on Deathwatch

Voices From Solitary: Positive Delusions