Seven Days in Solitary [2/2/22]
• Peter Robbins, the original voice of the Charlie Brown cartoon, died by suicide last week, reports The Mercury News. After his release in 2019, he “expressed hope that he could turn his life around...
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• Slate and the Marshall Project co-published an article about the many individuals on death row with a history of abuse in juvenile detention, including overprescription of drugs, hostile...
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• The New York Times reports that in Texas, a lawsuit filed by Dennis Hope asking for relief from his prolonged isolation is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Hope, who is represented by the...
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• A Virginia House of Delegates subcommittee voted to amend legislation that would have limited solitary confinement to 15 days to instead require that prison officials study the issue, reports the...
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• The Colorado Sun reports that the state legislature rejected a bill that would have created a commission responsible for ensuring local jails follow protocol regarding health standards, food and...
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Eric King describes himself as a 33-year-old vegan anarchist political prisoner and poet who was arrested and charged with an attempted firebombing of a Congressperson’s office in Kansas City,...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [10/5/20]
• The Georgetown Law Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, along with 68 current and former prosecutors and U.S. Department of Justice officials, filed a brief to the U.S. Court of...
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• The Boston Globe reported that the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney’s office conducted an investigation, finding “reasonable cause to believe” that the Massachusetts Department of...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [1/25/21]
• The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the ACLU of Virginia reached a settlement with the Virginia Department of Corrections in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Nicolas Reyes. Reyes, an incarcerated...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [2/8/21]
• Brie Williams, Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco and director of the group AMEND, and UCSF medical school student Amanda Li wrote in the Public Health Post about a study...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [7/27/21]
• Corrections departments across the country have found ways to circumvent recent anti-solitary confinement legislation by simply renaming the cages that people are held in, the Progressive reports....
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [8/2/21]
• Although the Virginia Department of Corrections claims to be shifting their solitary confinement practice to “restorative housing,” the Virginia Coalition on Solitary Confinement and ACLU of...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [10/6/21]
• On September 30th, the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) claimed that it will end the use of disciplinary segregation as punishment in prisons after determining that most individuals...
View ArticleFourteen Days in Solitary [12/29/21]
• The Oregonian and the Oregon Capitol Chronicle both report on a lawsuit filed by the Oregon Justice Resource Center against the state Department of Corrections, seeking a 15-day limit on the use of...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [1/26/22]
• Intelligencer published an article covering the history of the anti-solitary movement at Rikers Island, where author Matt Steib concludes, “under Mayor Eric Adams, it appears solitary isn’t going...
View ArticleSeven Days In Solitary [6/15/22]
New this week from Solitary Watch: • A series of haiku was published this week in the Solitary Watch Voices from Solitary series, featuring work from people incarcerated in Pennsylvania. The project,...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [6/22/22]
New this week from Solitary Watch: • Solitary Watch reports on the latest Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities, data collected by the federal government’s Bureau of Justice...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [9/28/22]
• TIME reports that the Department of Justice undercounted nearly 1,000 deaths in United States prisons and jails during the last fiscal year. At a congressional hearing on the matter, Vanessa Fano...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [10/26/22]
New from Solitary Watch: • On October 27 at 8pm ET, Unlock the Box will host a virtual reading from the 2016 book Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement, edited by Solitary Watch...
View ArticleFederal Judge Orders Arizona to Fix Deadly Prison Conditions…and Other News...
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) has been ordered by a federal judge to make “substantial” reforms to bring Arizona prisons in line with constitutional...
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Use of Solitary in Federal Prisons Increases Under Biden… and Other News on...
New from Solitary Watch: In the latest in our series of monthly dispatches, The Word from Solitary Watch, Staff Writer and Editor Vaidya Gullapalli explores how solitary confinement is used to...
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Abusive Federal “Double Solitary” Unit Closes…and Other News on Solitary...
New from Solitary Watch: In an essay for our Voices from Solitary series, L. LeDonne describes her experience in solitary while incarcerated in Connecticut’s York Correctional Institution. A musician...
View ArticleVideo Exposes Force Feeding at ADX Florence…and Other News on Solitary...
Journalists have obtained video footage of a force feeding at a Colorado federal prison after more than three years of litigation. The footage shows Mohammad Salameh being force fed in 2015 in ADX...
View ArticleMan With Schizophrenia Starves to Death in Solitary…and Other News on...
This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: Joshua McLemore, a 29-year-old man who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, died of starvation after being held naked and alone in a...
View ArticleReport Reveals Rampant Abuse in Federal Prison’s Solitary Unit… and Other...
New this week from Solitary Watch: In the latest edition of Voices from Solitary, a pair of essays by Michael Bankert describes his search for companionship in confinement and the struggle to survive...
View Article“Alternatives” to Solitary in New Jersey Prisons Fail to Reflect Reform...
New this week from Solitary Watch: In a recent article, published in partnership with the Davis Vanguard, James Anderson investigates the use of solitary confinement on vulnerable populations at...
View ArticleKids in Albuquerque Jail “Locked Down in Our Cells All Day Like a Animal in a...
New this week from Solitary Watch: We send our deepest gratitude to the readers who responded to our appeals and contributed to our year-end fundraising drive. Thanks to your generosity and faith in...
View ArticleProtests Against Long-Term Solitary Continue in Virginia…And Other News on...
This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: Approximately 55 percent of incarcerated people in solitary confinement in Virginia have been there for more than 15 days. Whether...
View ArticleNY Mayor Adams Vetoes Bill Banning Solitary in City Jails…And Other News on...
New this week from Solitary Watch: Dillion Compton was only 16 years old when he was first tried and convicted as an adult in Texas. While incarcerated Compton spent almost nine years in temporary and...
View ArticleReport Shows Hundreds of Preventable Deaths in Federal Prisons…and Other News...
This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: In a recent report, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General found that the Federal Bureau of Prisons...
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