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New this week from Solitary Watch: • In an essay in our Voices from Solitary series, Cesar Villa offers a searing account of living in prolonged solitary confinement in a Security Housing Unit, or SHU, at California’s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison. “We’re only here to die. The prison administration is paid to put us down. […]

Seven Days in Solitary

solitary survivor narratives

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/22]

Groundbreaking New Report Exposes Impact of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons

What They Wanted to See: Images for People in Solitary Confinement

Inside the Hole: Enduring Solitary Confinement in California

Voices from Solitary: I Spent 16 Months in Solitary Confinement, and Now I’m Fighting to End It

Louisiana on Lockdown: Voices from Louisiana’s Solitary Confinement Cells

The View from Badger Yard: Surviving in San Quentin with COVID-19

Voices from Solitary: What My Mother Doesn’t Know

Seven Days in Solitary [2/25/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/1/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/13/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/22/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/29/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/26/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/14/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/27/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/16/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/23/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/13/20]

Fourteen Days in Solitary [3/30/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/6/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/20/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/27/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/11/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/18/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/25/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/3/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/7/20]