July 2013 - Solitary Watch

Over the weekend, news came out that a hunger strike participant at California State Prison, Corcoran had committed suicide. Billy Michael Sell, 32, killed himself on July 22nd, two weeks after the launch of an on-going statewide hunger strike against long-term solitary confinement and related prison conditions. While the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation […]

News & Features

Suicide of California Hunger Strike Participant Draws National Attention to a Broken System

Why Holder’s Pledge That Snowden “Will Not Be Tortured” Is a Lie

Seven Days in Solitary [7/28/13]

One Thousand California Hunger Strikers At Two Weeks

California Prison Hunger Strike: “It’s an Absolute Madhouse”

Seven Days in Solitary [7/21/13]

California Prison Officials Retaliating Against Hunger Strikers

Voices from Solitary: American Supermax

Thousands of California Prisoners, One Hunger Strike, One Week

We Are One Body: Catholics Raise Voices Against Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [7/14/13]

Members of Congress Call for Investigation of Louisiana’s Use of Solitary Confinement, Treatment of Angola 3

Voices from Solitary: This Place Is Nothing More Than a Torture Chamber

What Solitary Confinement Does to the Brain

Faces and Voices of the California Prison Hunger Strike

As 30,000 Join California Prison Hunger Strike, Corrections Officials Issue Guidelines on Starvation

California Prisoners Launch New Hunger Strike to Protest Solitary Confinement

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/7/13]

New Feature: Letters to Solitary

Women in California Prison Isolation Units Face Overcrowding and Despair