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Solitary Confinement

What they don’t tell you about solitary confinement is how it shape-shifts, morphing into forms you never expected, slipping through the cracks of places supposedly designed for healing. I learned this lesson in the most bitter way possible at the prison hospital in Galveston, Texas, where care became just another word for control, and medical […]

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Solitary Confinement

The Shape-Shifting Face of Solitary: A Prison Hospital’s Dark Truth

Solitary Rates in ICE Detention Skyrocket Under Trump…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

ICE Reopens Prisons and Detention Centers Previously Closed Due to Abuse and Neglect…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: An Elusive Victory

ICE Detainees Deported to El Salvador Report Dark Isolation Cells, Beatings, and Rape… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement and Prison Activism Documents How Incarcerated People Are Punished for Defending Their Rights

Joe Rogan Left “Speechless” by Survivor’s Account of Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Hunger Strikes Expose Brutal Conditions at Two State Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: Inside the Hole

Solitary Linked to Epidemic of Prison Suicides… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

How Solitary Confinement Kills

Trump’s Policies Throw Lives of Incarcerated People into Chaos…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Lockdowns, Violence, and “Barbaric Conditions” in a Brooklyn Federal Jail Known for Its Famous Detainees

Beyond The Rainbow: Remembering Our Most Forgotten

Hunger Strike in California Prisons Protests New Restrictions…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

After Decades in Solitary, a Sliver of Light

Corrections Leaders Say Solitary Does Not Make Prisons Safer…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Immigrants Detained Nationwide Face Isolation and Squalor…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Suicides in North Carolina Prisons Linked to Use of Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Detained Migrants Face Indefinite Solitary in Texas…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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

Migrants Face Inhumane Conditions, Abuse, and Solitary at El Paso ICE Facility…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Trump Plans to Restore Alcatraz…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Trump DOJ Cuts Funding for Prison Rape Prevention and Survivors…and Other News on Solitary Confinement this Week

Pope Francis Condemned Solitary Confinement as Torture…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Voices from Solitary: Imagine This

Trump’s New Director of Federal Prisons Brings a Horrific Record on Prison Conditions…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

LA County Settles $4 Billion Sexual Abuse Lawsuit for Juvenile Detention Victims… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Surviving Solitary