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New this week from Solitary Watch: This month’s edition of “The Word from Solitary Watch,” a series of dispatches from Solitary Watch staff and contributors, is a collaboration between Kwaneta Harris, a senior writer and editor with Solitary Watch, and Valerie Kiebala, Solitary Watch’s managing editor. The piece describes their first in-person visit, which occurred […]

News & Features Seven Days in Solitary

Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ)

Suicidal ICE Detainees Routinely Put in Solitary…

Voices from Solitary: The Lord of Table Six’s New Clothes

The Daughter the Criminal Legal System Failed, and the Mother Who Never Did

Exposing the “Real Scandal” Behind the Solitary Cell Where Epstein Died…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

No Exit: Death and Despair in Texas’s “Double-Cell” Solitary Units

Voices from Solitary: The Toll Isolation Takes

People in Solitary in Texas Are Banned from Reading the Book They Wrote…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Ninety Percent of Incarcerated Transgender People Report Experiencing Solitary Confinement…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Seven Days in Solitary [12/28/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/11/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/27/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/21/19]

Voices from Solitary: Living on Death Watch

Seven Days in Solitary [4/15/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/16/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/7/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/29/18]