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Years ago, when we were down in Louisiana working on a story about the notorious plantation prison called Angola, a man who had served nearly 20 years shared with us what he thought to be a common misconception about prisons. He knew that most people looked at the wall around the perimeter of a prison, and […]

News & Features

Five Unforgettable Stories From Inside Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

November 27, 2017

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: What Decades of Isolation Do to the Mind and Body

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by Voices from Solitary

October 3, 2017

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Things I Always Carry With Me

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by Voices from Solitary

September 14, 2017

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Sent to Solitary Confinement for Being Disabled

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by Voices from Solitary

June 27, 2017

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: Welcome to the Round House

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by Voices from Solitary

May 16, 2017

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “Breathtakingly Irresponsible”

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by Voices from Solitary

December 21, 2016

News & Features

Letters from the Hole

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by James Ridgeway

December 12, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Sad Flutes

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by Voices from Solitary

October 21, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: The War of All Against All

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by Voices from Solitary

July 27, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Solitary Is a Living Death

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by Voices from Solitary

June 21, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Pregnant in Prison, Birth in Shackles

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by Voices from Solitary

October 30, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: We Are All Animals

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by Voices from Solitary

October 9, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Second-by-Second Attack on Your Soul

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by Voices from Solitary

August 4, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Segregation Medical

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by Voices from Solitary

July 28, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Injury x Insult

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by Voices from Solitary

July 21, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Fly in the Ointment

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by Voices from Solitary

July 13, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Phantom Souls

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by Voices from Solitary

June 19, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Safari from Pelikkkan Bay

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by Voices from Solitary

April 16, 2015

News & Features

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 2, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “I Am Somebody’s Daughter”

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by Voices from Solitary

February 24, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: On Hunger Strike Against Brutal Treatment in Florida Prisons

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by Voices from Solitary

February 14, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Cycle of Despair

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January 5, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

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by Voices from Solitary

December 25, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Is It Normal to Think That?

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by Voices from Solitary

November 15, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Is “Torture” Too Strong of a Word?

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by Voices from Solitary

November 7, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Survivors Speak

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by Voices from Solitary

October 21, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Freedom Shares My Cell

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by Voices from Solitary

October 16, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: At War With My Own Self

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by Voices from Solitary

September 30, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part VII

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by Voices from Solitary

September 26, 2014

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