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The following piece is an excerpt from the new book The Jailhouse Lawyer, written by formerly incarcerated lawyer Calvin Duncan and criminal justice reform advocate Sophie Cull. Just released last week, the book recounts Calvin’s decades of imprisonment at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the largest maximum security prison in the United States, for […]

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The Jailhouse Lawyer: Fighting Abuse and Forced Medication at Angola Prison

Voices from Solitary: Fighting for Everyone’s Liberation

Beyond The Rainbow: Remembering Our Most Forgotten

Voices from Solitary: Crawling Out of the Darkness, Part 2

Voices from Solitary: Crawling Out of the Darkness, Part 1

Witnessing the Solitary-to-Cemetery Pipeline

When Freedom Still Feels Like Prison

Surviving Solitary

Voices from Solitary: My Darkest Night in Solitary Gave Me the Strength to Fight Back

Voices from Solitary: The Toll Isolation Takes

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention Warns of Growth Under Trump

Men Were Held in “the Hole” Without Light or Heat in a Pennsylvania Prison…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New York Mayor Sued for Blocking Solitary Confinement Ban…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Negligence in New Jersey Prison Led to Death at Christmas…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Hunger Strike in a Massachusetts Prison Targets Isolation and Abuse…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: What My Mother Doesn’t Know

Seven Days in Solitary [8/11/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/17/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/10/21]

Fourteen Days in Solitary [12/21/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/6/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/5/17]

“Witness to Human Torture”: On Both Sides of the Prison Walls, Social Workers Confront Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Things I Always Carry With Me

Seven Days in Solitary [08/20/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [08/13/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/16/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/02/2017]

Agreement Will Reduce Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill in Oregon Prisons