Charles Dickens on Solitary Confinement: “Immense Torture and Agony”
The history of solitary confinement shows it to be largely an American invention. In a blog post that accompanied the March 2009 publication of Atul Gawande’s New Yorker article on solitary...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [8/23/2015]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports, and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • A New York Times...
View Article“Photo Requests from Solitary” Comes to Philadelphia’s Eastern State...
Photo Requests from Solitary (PRFS) is an ongoing project hosted by Solitary Watch that invites men and women held in solitary confinement to request a photograph of anything at all, real or imagined,...
View ArticleFourteen Days in Solitary [12/21/20]
• The New Orleans Lens reported that the non-profit Promise of Justice Initiative (PJI) released a report, claiming that prison administrators and staff responded inadequately to the coronavirus...
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