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New this week from Solitary Watch: In the latest edition of Voices from Solitary, a pair of essays by Michael Bankert describes his search for companionship in confinement and the struggle to survive depths of despair brought about by isolation. Throughout his time in solitary confinement Bankert returns to art and writing as a means […]

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Suicide

Report Reveals Rampant Abuse in Federal Prison’s Solitary Unit… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Staff Accused of Starting “Fight Club” at New Jersey Prison…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: Imagine

Videos Show Brutal Treatment of Prisoners with Mental Illness

Voices from Solitary: Head Cases

Seven Days in Solitary [7/6/22]

Voices from Solitary: An Open Letter from the Allegheny County Jail

Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention Is a Grim Reality—and Only Likely to Get Worse

Voices from Solitary: Death Would Feel So Much Better

Seven Days in Solitary [9/23/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/14/18]

Prisoner at Corcoran State Prison Commits Suicide in Solitary

Solitary Confinement in Great Britain: Still Harsh, But Rare

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Chicago Jail’s Quest to End Solitary Confinement Is a Work in Progress

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/22]

Voices from Solitary: Life in a Pennsylvania Prison’s “Restricted Housing Unit”

Voices from Solitary: “Home Sweet Home”

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker

Voices from Solitary: Hank Skinner’s Dispatches from Texas Death Row

Voices from Solitary: “No Wonder There Are So Many Suicides”

Voices from Solitary: “No Human Being Should Be Treated This Way”

Voices from Solitary: Disciplined Into Madness and Death

Voices from Solitary: “Finally Out and Among the Living”

Voices from Solitary: “Death Row Diary” of Florida Man Scheduled to Die Tonight

Voices from Solitary: At War With My Own Self

Voices from Solitary: Reach Out

Voices from Solitary: Survivors Speak