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Jacob Barrett is an Oregon state prisoner who was transferred to Florida under the Interstate Corrections Compact. He was held in the Intensive Management Unit in Oregon, and then in Close Management in Florida—both euphemism for solitary confinement. Barrett has served two decades of a life sentence for a murder committed when he was 19 years […]

Voices from Solitary

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Voices from Solitary: We Are All Animals

Voices from Solitary: Phantom Souls

American Outcasts: U.S. Prisons and Modern Day Banishment

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

Fates Worse Than Death?

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part II

Seven Days in Solitary [11/24/13]

Inside ADX Supermax: “A Bloody Nightmare”

Voices from Solitary: Everyone Needs a Friend

Voices from Solitary: American Supermax

Women in California Prison Isolation Units Face Overcrowding and Despair

Voices from Solitary: Your Imagination, But My Reality

Voices from Solitary: Growing Old in Isolation

Russell Maroon Shoatz: Resisting the “Spiritual Death” of Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [4.20.13]

Visiting Billy Blake After 25 Years in Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

Twelve Years in Solitary, and “Still in Illegal Limbo”

Profile of an ADX Prisoner: “Just Half Crazy And Trying To Hold On To The Other Half”

The Other Death Sentence: Aging and Dying in Prison

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

Voices from Solitary: Surviving the “Prison Within a Prison”

Death in Pennsylvania Solitary Confinement Cell Raises Questions

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

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

European Human Rights Court Rules Terror Suspects Can Be Extradited to U.S. Supermax

“Cruel Isolation”: Amnesty International Report Blasts Conditions in Arizona’s Prisons

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