Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/22]
• Slate and the Marshall Project co-published an article about the many individuals on death row with a history of abuse in juvenile detention, including overprescription of drugs, hostile...
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• The New York Times reports that in Texas, a lawsuit filed by Dennis Hope asking for relief from his prolonged isolation is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Hope, who is represented by the...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [3/2/22]
• A Virginia House of Delegates subcommittee voted to amend legislation that would have limited solitary confinement to 15 days to instead require that prison officials study the issue, reports the...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [3/9/22]
• Reason published an article following the State of the Union about President Biden’s unfulfilled campaign promises, saying “neither the White House nor Biden had much to say about the sweeping...
View ArticleIn Connecticut, Opponents of Solitary Confinement Renew the Fight for Strong...
At Connecticut’s Cheshire Correctional Institution, Hamid Muhammad and his blockmates are often locked in their cells for upwards of twenty-two hours a day. The lockdowns have put tremendous stress on...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [1/25/21]
• The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the ACLU of Virginia reached a settlement with the Virginia Department of Corrections in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Nicolas Reyes. Reyes, an incarcerated...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [2/8/21]
• Brie Williams, Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco and director of the group AMEND, and UCSF medical school student Amanda Li wrote in the Public Health Post about a study...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [2/15/21]
• A US District Judge ordered the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) to “stop retaliation and threats of retaliation against incarcerated people” for participating in a lawsuit regarding the...
View ArticleSix Weeks in Solitary [4/5/21]
• According to a February 19 article from the Davis Vanguard, incarcerated individuals in the California Medical Facility are suffering from mental health problems due to a lockdown that was imposed in...
View ArticleA Month in Solitary [5/3/21]
• Brian Nelson spent 23 years of his 28-year sentence in solitary confinement, many of them in the notorious Tamms supermax state prison in Illinois, which has since been closed. After his release,...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [5/10/21]
• Ian Manuel was sentenced to life without parole for a crime committed at age 13, and spent nearly two decades in solitary confinement. Freed five years ago through the efforts of Bryan Stevenson and...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [5/17/21]
• “Silenced: Voices From Solitary in Michigan” is a new, interactive, searchable, and growing digital archive of over 100 letters from solitary in Michigan. Conceived by the group Zealous, it was...
View ArticleFourteen Days in Solitary [5/31/21]
• “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that this isn’t just a place where people do time—it’s a place where people go to be broken.” A blog post on the website of Arnold Ventures provides an in-depth...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [6/7/21]
• A new report found that at least 786 people died in Louisiana’s jails and prisons between 2015 and 2019. The report is the result of research conducted by Andrea Armstrong of Loyola University New...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [7/27/21]
• Corrections departments across the country have found ways to circumvent recent anti-solitary confinement legislation by simply renaming the cages that people are held in, the Progressive reports....
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [8/2/21]
• Although the Virginia Department of Corrections claims to be shifting their solitary confinement practice to “restorative housing,” the Virginia Coalition on Solitary Confinement and ACLU of...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [8/11/21]
• A study conducted in 2017 concluded that recent incrementalist reforms in Washington state prisons’ Intensive Management Units, where people are held for 22 hours a day in isolation, failed to...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [11/3/21]
• Episode 235 of the Hard Luck Show podcast illustrates the history of solitary confinement and gang affiliation, centering voices from Unlock the Box; California Families To Abolish Solitary...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [11/17/21]
• Health and Justice published an research study which analyzed the results of solitary confinement policy changes in the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, seeking to fill a...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [12/15/21]
• Christopher Blackwell, incarcerated journalist, and Jessica Sandoval, director of the Unlock the Box national campaign to end solitary confinement, published an commentary in Inquest outlining how...
View ArticleSeven Days In Solitary [4/13/22]
• Spectrum News Albany reports that New York’s HALT Solitary Confinement Act went into effect on April 1st. The legislation, which was signed into law in 2021, ends the use of solitary confinement in...
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• Melat Eskander interviews a man with several mental disorders incarcerated in Pennsylvania for Solitary Watch, highlighting the anti-Black racism he has experienced as well as treatment neglect....
View ArticleSeven Days In Solitary [5/4/22]
New this week from Solitary Watch: • In the first of a series of monthly dispatches from Solitary Watch, Vaidya Gullapalli writes about the ineffective, inhumane use of punishment for rehabilitation...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [5/11/22]
New this week from Solitary Watch: Chris Wilson published in the Voices from Solitary series, about his experience entering prison as a 17 year old, about the 117 days he spent locked up, and about...
View ArticleSeven Days In Solitary [6/8/22]
New this week from Solitary Watch: • Solitary Watch Director Jean Casella looks at the response from anti-solitary advocates to President Biden’s Executive Order issued last month, which gives the...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [9/22/22]
New this week from Solitary Watch: • Type Investigations and The American Prospect published an investigation by Solitary Watch contributing writers Katie Rose Quandt and Juan Moreno Haines. Quandt...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [11/9/22]
New from Solitary Watch: • In an essay for our Voices from Solitary series, Raymond Williams writes about his experience as a 17-year-old incarcerated at Washington Corrections Center, where he was...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [12/21/22]
New from Solitary Watch: • Our Voices from Solitary series features a new piece by Dennis Hope, who was placed in solitary in Texas in 1994. After more than a quarter century in isolation and years of...
View ArticleOne Prison Strike Ends; Another May Begin…and Other News on Solitary...
Incarcerated individuals at Nevada’s Ely State Prison have ended a month-long hunger strike. The strike participants, who began refusing food on December 1st, used the strike to call attention to a...
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Texas Prisons on Statewide Lockdown…and Other News on Solitary Confinement...
New this week from Solitary Watch: In the most recent edition of Voices from Solitary, incarcerated artist and activist Timothy Young writes about his struggles living on California’s Death Row....
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