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Our article “Locking Down the Mentally Ill” appeared last week on The Crime Report, the online publication of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College, City University of New York. We’re posting a few excerpts here, but hope you will read the entire piece on The Crime Report‘s site. “If you want to […]

News & Features

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 20, 2010

News & Features

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 17, 2010

SW Reports

Report: 500% Increase in Use of Solitary Confinement During COVID-19 Puts Hundreds of Thousands of People at Risk

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by Jean Casella

June 15, 2020

News & Features

Will Biden Step Up on Solitary Confinement?

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by Veronica Riccobene and Jean Casella

February 28, 2022

Ridgeway Reporting Project

Immigrant Detainees Went on Hunger Strike Against Intolerable Conditions and COVID Exposure. ICE Punished Them with Solitary Confinement.

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

January 28, 2021

Ridgeway Reporting Project

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

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

February 8, 2021

SW Reports

Louisiana on Lockdown: The History of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana

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by Katie Rose Quandt

September 12, 2019

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “What Prisoners Have…”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

July 4, 2010

Voices from Solitary

AFSC Seeks Stories of Isolation and Torture in U.S. Prisons

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 4, 2010

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

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by Sal Rodriguez

July 24, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The “Life Negating Emptiness” of the Pelican Bay SHU

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 25, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Letter from Calipatria Prison Hunger Strikers

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by Sal Rodriguez

October 8, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Hank Skinner’s Dispatches from Texas Death Row

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

November 7, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Was “the Only Way to Get the Word Out” About Prison Abuses

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by Sal Rodriguez

September 6, 2011

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Behind Enemy Lines

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by Voices from Solitary

June 9, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “The SHU Is California’s Equivalent of Waterboarding”

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by Voices from Solitary

June 10, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: From the Vortex of Uinta One

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by Voices from Solitary

June 14, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “No Longer a Part of the World”

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by Voices from Solitary

June 12, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

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by Voices from Solitary

June 28, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Art from Tennessee’s Death Row

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by Voices from Solitary

January 20, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Can’t You Hear Us?

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by Voices from Solitary

July 14, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Brandon Green, Chronicler of Solitary Confinement

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by Sal Rodriguez

January 11, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Your Imagination, But My Reality

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by Voices from Solitary

May 25, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Loneliest Place in the World

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by Voices from Solitary

June 3, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Louder My Voice the Deeper They Bury Me

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by Lisa Dawson

April 11, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Solitary Watch Print Edition

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 21, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “This Massive Mind-Fuck Machine”

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by Voices from Solitary

January 5, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Solitary Confinement’s Invisible Scars

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by Voices from Solitary

October 31, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: American Supermax

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by Voices from Solitary

July 18, 2013

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