Skip to content
SW logo
MENU
  • About
    • About Solitary Watch
    • Staff & Advisors
    • Internships & Volunteer Opportunities
    • Supporters
    • Contact
  • Resources
    • FAQ
    • Preguntas Frecuentes (FAQ en español)
    • Fact Sheets
    • SW Reports: COVID-19 and Solitary
    • SW Reports: Louisiana On Lockdown
    • SW Reports: Unlocking Solitary in Nevada
    • SW Book: Hell Is A Very Small Place
    • SW Book Reading Guide
    • Print Edition for Incarcerated Readers
  • Projects
    • The Ridgeway Reporting Project
    • Lifelines to Solitary
    • Photo Requests From Solitary
  • Subscribe
  • Donate

Solitary Watch

Filters
  • News & Features
  • Voices from Solitary
  • Seven Days in Solitary
  • Projects

United Nations

New this week from Solitary Watch: • In an essay in our Voices from Solitary series, Cesar Villa offers a searing account of living in prolonged solitary confinement in a Security Housing Unit, or SHU, at California’s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison. “We’re only here to die. The prison administration is paid to put us down. […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/5/22]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Caitlin Konya

October 5, 2022

News & Features

The Word: Torture Before Trial

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Vaidya Gullapalli

September 29, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [8/24/22]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Caitlin Konya

August 24, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [6/29/22]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Roxanne Barnes

June 29, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [6/22/20]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Valerie Kiebala

June 23, 2020

News & Features

A Watershed Year in the Movement to Stop Solitary Confinement

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Solitary Watch Guest Author

January 2, 2020

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [11/11/19]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Valerie Kiebala

November 11, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/28/19]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Valerie Kiebala

October 28, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [7/13/19]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Valerie Kiebala

July 15, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/19]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Valerie Kiebala

June 10, 2019

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [8/19/18]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Valerie Kiebala

August 19, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/18]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Valerie Kiebala

June 10, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [5/13/18]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Valerie Kiebala

May 13, 2018

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [2/25/18]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Valerie Kiebala

February 25, 2018

News & Features

Looking Back on Six Years of Leadership Against Solitary Confinement With UN Torture Expert Juan Méndez

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by James Ridgeway

January 30, 2017

News & Features

UN Report Compares Solitary Confinement Practices in the U.S. and Around the World

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Joshua Manson

October 28, 2016

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [7/24/2016]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Aviva Stahl

July 24, 2016

News & Features

Can International Laws and Standards Help Curb Solitary Confinement in the United States?

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Aylin Manduric

August 6, 2015

News & Features

UN Human Rights Experts (Again) Push for Access to U.S. Prisons, Call for Solitary Reform

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Aylin Manduric

July 24, 2015

News & Features

UN’s “Mandela Rules” to Set New International Limits on Solitary Confinement

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Aylin Manduric

July 17, 2015

News & Features

UN Committee on Torture Says U.S. Must Reform Its Use of Solitary Confinement

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Sridevi Nambiar

December 5, 2014

News & Features

U.S. Government Tells UN: “No Systematic Use of Solitary Confinement in the United States”

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Jean Casella

October 14, 2014

News & Features

UN Investigator Says Long-Term Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons Is Torture

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Aviva Stahl

April 14, 2014

News & Features

UN: Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Can Be Torture, Force-Feeding Unacceptable

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Lisa Dawson

August 28, 2013

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [6/23/13]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Lisa Dawson

June 23, 2013

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [4.12.13]

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Lisa Dawson

April 12, 2013

News & Features

At U.N. Prisoners’ Rights Meeting, U.S. Resists Limits on Solitary Confinement

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

December 18, 2012

News & Features

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

March 21, 2012

News & Features

UN Human Rights Council Considers Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons

Read Story Arrow pointing right

by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

March 5, 2012

Previous
  • 1
  • 2
Next

P.O. Box 11374
Washington, DC 20008

info@solitarywatch.org

Solitary Watch

  • Visit our facebook page
  • Visit our twitter page
  • Visit our instagram page
  • Visit our linkedin page
  • Visit our rss page

© Copyright 2023, Solitary Watch

Read about rights and permissions.

Creative Commons License

 

Subscribe

Subscribe

* indicates required



Solitary Watch News