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Fifteen years ago, Gerard G. Schultz, Jr., now 38, was convicted of murder in Phoenix, Arizona. He is serving a life sentence and has been in solitary since 2008, when he was transferred from Arizona to Illinois under the Interstate Corrections Compact. In Illinois, he was placed in Tamms Supermax Prison until it was closed […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Phantom Souls

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June 19, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: Fly in the Ointment

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July 13, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: Injury x Insult

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July 21, 2015

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

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August 4, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: Segregation Medical

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July 28, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: We Are All Animals

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October 9, 2015

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

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February 14, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: “Breathtakingly Irresponsible”

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December 21, 2016

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Voices from Solitary: Sent to Solitary Confinement for Being Disabled

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June 27, 2017

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Voices from Solitary: Things I Always Carry With Me

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September 14, 2017

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: Prison Staff Tried to Get Me to Betray a Friend Using Isolation and Intimidation

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January 15, 2018

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Voices From Solitary: Waltzing Into Hell

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August 28, 2018

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Reprieve

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 22, 2018

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: The Freedom I Feel in My Heart and Mind

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April 10, 2018

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Voices From Solitary: Resurrection

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May 31, 2018

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Voices from Solitary: Pregnant in Prison, Birth in Shackles

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October 30, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: Solitary Is a Living Death

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June 21, 2016

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

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October 3, 2017

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Voices From Solitary: The War of All Against All

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July 27, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: Welcome to the Round House

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May 16, 2017

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Voices from Solitary: Sad Flutes

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October 21, 2016

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Voices from Solitary: A Concrete Death

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September 28, 2018

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Voices from Solitary: Six by Ten

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February 12, 2019

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Voices from Solitary: Solitary Sorrow

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March 8, 2019

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: Years of Torture in the Jail Where Jeffrey Epstein Died

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August 19, 2019

Voices from Solitary

The “Soul-Crushing Loneliness” of Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

December 17, 2019

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: We Go Through Hell Here

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May 3, 2019

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Voices from Solitary: I Spent 16 Months in Solitary Confinement, and Now I’m Fighting to End It

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July 18, 2019

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Voices from Solitary: Satan’s Domain

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June 12, 2020

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