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New this week from Solitary Watch: In an article co-published by The Appeal, Solitary Watch’s Katie Rose Quandt and Maeve Brennan report on the “dangerous, barbaric conditions” at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a federal jail in Brooklyn. Lockdowns emulating solitary confinement have become increasingly frequent in response to rising violence at the facility. The […]

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Trump’s Policies Throw Lives of Incarcerated People into Chaos…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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]

Voices from Solitary: Letters from the Hole

Seven Days in Solitary [1/26/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/22/14]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/2014]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/11/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/22/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/1/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/5/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/20/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/19/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/7/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/28/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/15/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/28/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/23/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/10/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/29/21]

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

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