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New this week from Solitary Watch: In the latest piece supported by a grant from Solitary Watch’s Ridgeway Reporting Project, published by Slate, incarcerated journalist Jeremy Busby exposes the shocking treatment endured by incarcerated people with mental illness, among others, in several Texas prisons. His article details the dehumanizing conditions suicidal incarcerated people experience in […]

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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

Voices from Solitary: At Attica, Hard Hearts and a Sliver of Hope

Voices from Solitary: You Have to Be There

Voices from Solitary: On Hunger Strike in a Pennsylvania Prison

You Can Help End Torture in U.S. Prisons

Voices from Solitary: I Need to Be Alone

House Democrats Introduce Legislation Banning Solitary in Federal Facilities… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Prison Staff Charged in Dehydration Death of Michigan Man; New Film on Solitary in Texas…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

The Word: When Solitary Is Used to Silence

You Can Help End Torture in U.S. Prisons

The Word: What Will It Take to End Torture in U.S. Prisons?

The Word: Dismantle Prisons or Improve Conditions? As Someone Inside, I Know We Must Do Both

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/22]

The Word: Torture Before Trial

Seven Days in Solitary [8/24/22]

Voices from Solitary: An Open Letter from the Allegheny County Jail

Will Biden Step Up on Solitary Confinement?

The Truth Behind Dennis Hope’s Decades of Torture in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: A Letter to Kalief Browder

“It’s Like a Slow War, Like a Slow Burn. Like a Slow, Quiet Form of Torture.”

Can Architects Help End Solitary Confinement?

Six Weeks in Solitary [4/5/21]

In New York, Few Resources for Solitary Confinement Survivors After Prison