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October 8, 2017October 11, 2017 Valerie Kiebala

• The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (IG) found in an investigation, released September 29, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents failed to report to ICE headquarters when they place individuals with mental illness in solitary confinement. The investigation, according to an article by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), […]

Written Through the Prison Wall, Play Reveals One Woman's Experience of Solitary Confinement

May 17, 2016May 17, 2016 Vaidya Gullapalli

Mariposa & the Saint is a play that began through letters. Sara Fonseca and Julia Steele Allen, both artists, began their correspondence when Fonseca–who goes by the name Mariposa–was in prison in California. Fonseca continues to be incarcerated at the California Institute for Women, where she is in a psychiatric unit. The play, performed by […]

Solitary Watch

By Katie Rose Quandt

November 9, 2018

theater

Seven Days in Solitary [10/8/2017]

Written Through the Prison Wall, Play Reveals One Woman's Experience of Solitary Confinement