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The following was submitted to Solitary Watch by Michael Jewell, who was sentenced to death in Texas for capital murder in 1970 and spent three years in solitary confinement as a death row prisoner. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1973 following the 1972 Supreme Court ruling in Furman v. Georgia, which prohibited […]

Voices from Solitary

Death Row

Voices from Solitary: What Solitary Confinement Does to the Mind

Voices from Solitary: Art from Tennessee’s Death Row

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Mumia Abu-Jamal Challenges Death Row Solitary Confinement and Life Without Parole

Solitary and Death Row Survivor Anthony Graves Speaks Out

Report from Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Connecticut Votes to Replace the Death Penalty with Life in Solitary Confinement

National and International Events Challenging Use of Solitary Confinement

“Occupy” Prison Protests in California Oppose Use of Solitary Confinement

Mumia Abu-Jamal Moved Off Death Row–and into Solitary Confinement

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Texas Prepares to Execute Hank Skinner Without Testing DNA

“On the Row, You Never See the Stars”: Oregon Prisoner Wants to Die to Escape Death Row

Voices from Solitary: Loneliness and Solitude

The Torture of Troy Davis

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Texas Lockdown: Solitary Confinement in the Lone Star State

Easter As a Story of Criminal Injustice

Supreme Court Rules Against Exonerated Death Row Inmate, for Prosecutors Who Withheld Evidence

Voices from Solitary: Lane Nelson on Angola’s Death Row

Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs

Colorado Inmate Says He Was Thrown in Solitary for Refusing to Supply False Testimony

Ohio Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike for Transfer from Solitary to Death Row

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Wilbert Rideau on Solitary Confinement: “The Zenith in Human Cruelty”

The Solitary Men of Texas Death Row

Angola Prison May Close Lockdown Unit–But Vows to Keep Inmates in Isolation

John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

Cash-Strapped California to Spend $500 Million for New “Condemned Inmate Complex” (Death Row)