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This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: The New York City Board of Correction (BOC), the city’s jail oversight body, condemned the Department of Correction for secretly constructing a new high-security unit on Rikers Island that may violate Local Law 42, which mandates incarcerated individuals spend 14 hours outside of their cells […]

Seven Days in Solitary

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

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by Francisco Rodriguez

February 19, 2025

Seven Days in Solitary

New Report Shows How Prison Discipline “Manufactures Misconduct”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week 

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by Kilhah St Fort

February 5, 2025

Seven Days in Solitary

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

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by Francisco Rodriguez

January 16, 2025

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Incarcerated People in Virginia Burn Themselves in Protest of Racial Abuse and Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Francisco Rodriguez

December 4, 2024

Seven Days in Solitary

Jailed Man Dies From Medical Neglect While in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week 

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by Kilhah St Fort

November 27, 2024

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