Tag: solitary confinement
Nebraska’s Fix for Double-Bunking in Solitary Confinement May Need Work
In Nebraska, where state prisons are often at 140-percent capacity, the legislature is considering ...
Ask for Reasonable Housing in Prison and It May Get You Forcibly Medicated
Jack*, a loner by nature, requires a single-man cell to remain mentally stable in ...
In Texas Prisons, Digital Mail Further Isolates Those in Solitary Confinement
Kwaneta Harris was cleaning her cell when she came across a manilla envelope filled ...
In Prison, a Sex Conviction Is a Target for Assault. Staff Pretends Otherwise.
Coming into the Tennessee men’s prison system nearly 30 years ago, I assumed that ...
Prisoners Need Civilian Review Boards, Too
Toward the end of my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody I ...
“A Moral Crime”: 22 Years in Solitary, and the Prison System That Watched
At age 18, Frank De Palma entered Nevada Department of Corrections custody on a ...
A Life and Death Sentence at Walla Walla, Recounted 50 Years Later
[Read Part 1 of this story here] For a few months in 2019, Don ...
Remembering Albert Woodfox, Who Fought to Free Me From Death Row
On March 1, Maurice Hastings was officially declared innocent after spending 38 years in ...
Surviving Solitary Confinement With the Help of Drugs
Of the 13 years I’ve spent incarcerated, 2020 was the worst. It was the ...
New York Abolished Long-Term Solitary. Will Guards Get With the Program?
On April 1, after eight years of a determined grassroots campaign, the HALT Act ...
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