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This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: A KQED investigation revealed a pattern of sexual abuse and retaliation against incarcerated women at the Central California Women’s Facility—one of the largest women’s prisons in the world. Hundreds of disciplinary records revealed systematic failures to investigate allegations against staff and a lack of accountability […]

Seven Days in Solitary

“Unbroken Pattern” of Sexual Abuse and Retaliation in California Women’s Prison Includes Months in Solitary…

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by Natalie Villanueva

October 28, 2026

Seven Days in Solitary

Christa Pike Faces Execution in Tennessee After 30 Years in Solitary…

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by Natalie Villanueva

September 16, 2026

Seven Days in Solitary

Half of Massachusetts Prison Suicides Were in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Lizzie Twardock

April 1, 2026

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: Years of Torture in the Jail Where Jeffrey Epstein Died

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by Voices from Solitary

August 19, 2019

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Seven Days in Solitary [9/25/2016]

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by Aviva Stahl

September 25, 2016

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [9/21/2014]

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by Aviva Stahl

September 21, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “Extradition”

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by Voices from Solitary

May 13, 2013

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