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In an article supported by Solitary Watch and published this week by The Progressive in its magazine and online, Solitary Watch Senior Writer/Editor Katie Rose Quandt exposes the incontrovertible link between solitary confinement and the epidemic numbers of suicides in U.S. prisons and jails. An excerpt appears below; read the full article on the website […]

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Torture

How Solitary Confinement Kills

Voices from Solitary: Fighting for Everyone’s Liberation

Voices from Solitary: The Crisis at Brooklyn’s “Dangerous, Barbaric” Federal Jail

Beyond The Rainbow: Remembering Our Most Forgotten

Alabama Voters Banned Prison Slavery—But Prisoners Say It Hasn’t Stopped

Migrants Face Inhumane Conditions, Abuse, and Solitary at El Paso ICE Facility…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: Crawling Out of the Darkness, Part 2

Voices from Solitary: Crawling Out of the Darkness, Part 1

“Mama’s in the Hole”

Witnessing the Solitary-to-Cemetery Pipeline

Pope Francis Condemned Solitary Confinement as Torture…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: Imagine This

Trump’s New Director of Federal Prisons Brings a Horrific Record on Prison Conditions…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Surviving Solitary

When Freedom Still Feels Like Prison

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

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

Federal Judge Allows Detention and Torture of Migrants at Guantanamo…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

I Was an Incarcerated Nursing Assistant During Covid. This Is What I Saw.

The Echo of Isolation: Women in Solitary Confinement in America, Past and Present

Voices from Solitary: My Darkest Night in Solitary Gave Me the Strength to Fight Back

New High-Security Unit on Rikers May Violate Solitary Confinement Law…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: The Toll Isolation Takes

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Voices From Solitary: Dispatches from Unit 29 at Parchman Prison

Virginia Prison Considered Charging Men Who Burned Themselves to Protest Conditions…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Pattern of Beatings and Solitary Preceded Deadly New York Prison Assault…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Men Were Held in “the Hole” Without Light or Heat in a Pennsylvania Prison…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Unlocking Hidden Stories of Torture Behind Bars