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New this week from Solitary Watch: In the latest piece supported by a grant from Solitary Watch’s Ridgeway Reporting Project, published by Slate, incarcerated journalist Jeremy Busby exposes the shocking treatment endured by incarcerated people with mental illness, among others, in several Texas prisons. His article details the dehumanizing conditions suicidal incarcerated people experience in […]

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Incarcerated People Are Forced to Do Dangerous Hurricane Cleanup Work…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Federal Prisons Under Fire From Watchdogs Over Solitary, Suicides…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

The Conservative Case Against Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Man Held in Solitary for Years Without Exercise…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

John Oliver Covers Solitary Confinement; Texas Lawmakers Seek to Undermine Independent Investigation of Jail Deaths…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

The Truth Behind Dennis Hope’s Decades of Torture in Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [2/16/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/1/18]

Lawsuits Challenge the Cruelty of Decades in Solitary Confinement on Death Row

How the Supreme Court Handed Trump a Free Pass for Discrimination and Abuse Against Detainees

Seven Days in Solitary [6/25/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/30/2017]

Solitary Confinement Gets Another Sharp Rebuke from a Supreme Court Justice

Seven Days in Solitary [3/12/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/28/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/12/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/5/2016]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/15/2016]

Will the Supreme Court Free Albert Woodfox After 43 Years in Solitary?

Seven Days in Solitary [10/18/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/20/2015]

British Supreme Court Rules Against Unlawful Use of Prolonged Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [7/26/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/5/2015]

Kalief Browder’s Life and Death Galvanize Action to End Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [6/28/2015]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/21/15]

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape Takes Her Case to the Supreme Court