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This week, The New Republic published a long essay by Arthur Longworth, which was written with the support of a grant from the Solitary Confinement Reporting Project, managed by Solitary Watch with funding from the Vital Projects Fund. Longworth has been incarcerated for 35 years and has spent long stretches in solitary. He is a 2019–2020 PEN America Writing for […]

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How to Survive Supermax

Solitary Watch Partners With Advocacy Groups on First Report Exposing Solitary Confinement in Nevada

Trump Wants to Bring Back Torture. For Thousands of Americans, It Never Went Away.

How Britain Does Supermax

New Federal Supermax Prison Will Double Capacity for Extreme Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Freedom Shares My Cell

ADX H-Unit on Hunger Strike, Prisoners Being Force-Fed

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

Voices from Solitary: Life in H-Unit, ADX Federal Supermax

Inside ADX Supermax: “A Bloody Nightmare”

Why Holder’s Pledge That Snowden “Will Not Be Tortured” Is a Lie

Voices from Solitary: American Supermax

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

Records Show Excessive Use of Force at Colorado Supermax

Seven Days in Solitary [5/12/13]

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

“Systemic Failures Persist” in California Prison Mental Health Care, Judge Rules

Voices from Solitary: Parts of My Mind Did Not Survive

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

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

The “Vicious Cycles” Created by Solitary Confinement

Utah Supermax Prisoners Report Being “Treated Like an Animal”

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

As California Implements Some Solitary Confinement Reforms, Prisoners Remain Skeptical

As Washington State Prisons Begin Reforms, 800 Remain in Solitary Confinement

Brandon Green, Chronicler of Solitary Confinement

The End of Tamms Supermax

Profile of an ADX Prisoner: “Just Half Crazy And Trying To Hold On To The Other Half”

Tamms Supermax: Report Reveals More Guards Than Prisoners, Soaring Costs