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The following piece is co-published with Ms. Magazine. In this powerful mother-daughter exchange, Summer Knight and Kwaneta Harris reveal how nearly a decade of forced silence through solitary confinement shattered their bond—and how they’re fighting to rebuild it, piece by piece. Summer I was only four months old when my mama got arrested. That’s what […]

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Torture

“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

When Freedom Still Feels Like Prison

Surviving Solitary

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

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

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

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

Voices from Solitary: The Toll Isolation Takes

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

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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

You Can Help End Torture in U.S. Prisons

Voices from Solitary: Polluted Waters

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

People with Mental Illness on Rikers Locked in Solitary and Denied Treatment…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: A Slow Drift Into the Abyss

Illinois Lawmakers Advocate for Limits on Solitary Confinement…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Lawsuit Accuses New York Prisons of Illegally Putting Disabled People in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: Not Captured on Camera

Voices from Solitary: Stillness Is My Nemesis