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This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: President Trump announced via Truth Social that he has selected William “Billy” Marshall to lead the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Marshall, who was appointed as the commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2023, will inherit a severely overcrowded and […]

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South Carolina

Trump’s New Director of Federal Prisons Brings a Horrific Record on Prison Conditions…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

DOJ Launches Civil Rights Investigation of Two Deadly South Carolina Jails…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Seven Days in Solitary 8/10/22

Seven Days in Solitary [5/4/22]

Seven Days In Solitary [4/20/22]

Seven Days In Solitary [4/13/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/29/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/10/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/23/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/28/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/15/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/28/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/7/19]

Prisons Use Solitary Confinement to Silence Strikers Nationwide—But Their Voices Have Been Heard

Seven Days in Solitary [8/19/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/20/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/5/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/1/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/22/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/11/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/2014]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/22/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/26/14]

Mentally Ill in South Carolina’s Prisons Suffer Decades of Abuse and Neglect

Lawsuit Challenges South Carolina’s Use of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners with Mental Illness

Voices from Solitary: Letters from the Hole