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The author of the following poem, William Blake, has spent 31 continuous years in solitary confinement in New York State prisons. Sentenced to 77 years to life for killing a sheriff’s deputy in a failed escape attempt when he was 23 years old, Blake is being held in administrative segregation, meaning there is no clear […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: Resurrection

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by Voices from Solitary

May 31, 2018

Voices from Solitary

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

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by Voices from Solitary

April 10, 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: Prison Staff Tried to Get Me to Betray a Friend Using Isolation and Intimidation

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by Voices from Solitary

January 15, 2018

News & Features

Five Unforgettable Stories From Inside Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

November 27, 2017

Voices from Solitary

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

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October 3, 2017

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Things I Always Carry With Me

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September 14, 2017

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Sent to Solitary Confinement for Being Disabled

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by Voices from Solitary

June 27, 2017

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: Welcome to the Round House

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by Voices from Solitary

May 16, 2017

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “Breathtakingly Irresponsible”

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by Voices from Solitary

December 21, 2016

News & Features

Letters from the Hole

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by James Ridgeway

December 12, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Sad Flutes

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by Voices from Solitary

October 21, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: The War of All Against All

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by Voices from Solitary

July 27, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Solitary Is a Living Death

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June 21, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Pregnant in Prison, Birth in Shackles

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by Voices from Solitary

October 30, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: We Are All Animals

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by Voices from Solitary

October 9, 2015

Voices from Solitary

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

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by Voices from Solitary

August 4, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Segregation Medical

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by Voices from Solitary

July 28, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Injury x Insult

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by Voices from Solitary

July 21, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Fly in the Ointment

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July 13, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Phantom Souls

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June 19, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Safari from Pelikkkan Bay

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April 16, 2015

News & Features

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 2, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “I Am Somebody’s Daughter”

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February 24, 2015

Voices from Solitary

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

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by Voices from Solitary

February 14, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Cycle of Despair

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January 5, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

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by Voices from Solitary

December 25, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Is It Normal to Think That?

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November 15, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Is “Torture” Too Strong of a Word?

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by Voices from Solitary

November 7, 2014

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