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• Brian Nelson spent 23 years of his 28-year sentence in solitary confinement, many of them in the notorious Tamms supermax state prison in Illinois, which has since been closed. After his release, Nelson dedicated himself to advocating for the rights of people in prison through his work with the Uptown People’s Law Center in […]

Seven Days in Solitary

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A Month in Solitary [5/3/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/4/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/22/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/3/19]

“As Long As Solitary Exists, They Will Find a Way to Use It”: Five Years After California’s Prison Hunger Strike

Seven Days in Solitary [10/22/17]

After California Prisons Release “Gang Affiliates” From Solitary Confinement, Costs and Violence Levels Drop

Voices from Solitary: “I Live Each Day Contemplating Death”

A Month in Solitary [8/31/13]

Hundreds Still on Hunger Strike in California Prisons As Situation Becomes Increasingly Dire

Seven Days in Solitary [7/21/13]

Voices from Solitary: This Place Is Nothing More Than a Torture Chamber

Faces and Voices of the California Prison Hunger Strike

Judge Rules California Solitary Confinement Lawsuit Should Have Its Day in Court

Voices from Solitary: “Where Cold, Quiet and Emptiness Come Together”

California Assembly Reviews Solitary Confinement Policies As Prisoners Threaten New Hunger Strike

As California Implements Some Solitary Confinement Reforms, Prisoners Remain Skeptical

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Political or Gang Activity? “New Afrikan” Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Can’t You Hear Us?

Voices from Solitary: Isolated for Having a “Gang” Calendar

Voices from Solitary: “The SHU Is California’s Equivalent of Waterboarding”

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in California Respond to Prison Policy Reforms

Families of California Prisoners Respond to Controversial Reforms of Solitary Confinement

Pelican Bay SHU Prisoners Respond to California’s Proposed Prisons Reforms

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

California Announces Reform of Controversial Policies That Led to Prison Hunger Strike

Voices from Solitary: Message from the Father of a California Prison Hunger Striker

The Truth About Solitary Confinement in California