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Robert “Saleem” Holbrook is serving life without parole in Pennsylvania for a crime committed when he was a juvenile. When he was 16, Holbrook was recruited by adults to serve as a lookout during a drug deal that escalated to robbery and then murder. Under the state’s mandatory sentencing laws, he was given LWOP–an experience he describes in an […]

Voices from Solitary

Supermax Prisons

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

Voices from Solitary: Exiled In Purgatory

Voices from Solitary: “The SHU Is California’s Equivalent of Waterboarding”

Voices from Solitary: From the Vortex of Uinta One

Voices from Solitary: Washington Cell Extraction

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

Voices from Solitary: A Man’s Strength Behind a Steel Door

Voices from Solitary: Art from Tennessee’s Death Row

Voices from Solitary: “A Sort of Solitary Psychosis”

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

Voices from Solitary: What Happens When the War Is Over

Voices from Solitary: A Spark in the Dark

Brandon Green, Chronicler of Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Can’t You Hear Us?

Voices from Solitary: “Where Cold, Quiet and Emptiness Come Together”

Voices from Solitary: Suffering at the Hands of Other Human Beings

Voices from Solitary: What Solitary Confinement Does to the Mind

Voices from Solitary: Parts of My Mind Did Not Survive

Voices from Solitary: The Louder My Voice the Deeper They Bury Me

Voices from Solitary: “Suicide Is Preferable to Long-Term Segregation”

Voices from Solitary: “Extradition”

Voices from Solitary: “I Live Each Day Contemplating Death”

Voices from Solitary: “A Prison Where the Building Becomes the Shackles”

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

Voices from Solitary: Thin Comfort

Solitary Watch Print Edition

Voices from Solitary: “This Massive Mind-Fuck Machine”

Voices from Solitary: This Place Is Nothing More Than a Torture Chamber

Voices from Solitary: The Torture Chamber