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Sean Swain is has served 22 years of a 20-to-life sentence for a murder he maintains was committed in self-defense. He has done many long stints in solitary confinement, and is currently being held at the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown. A self-proclaimed anarchist, he has twice run for governor of Ohio from his prison cell. […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “This Massive Mind-Fuck Machine”

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by Voices from Solitary

January 5, 2014

News & Features

Twenty Years After the Lucasville Uprising, Trying to Tell the Story

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

April 16, 2013

News & Features

Guarding the Fortresses: How Prison Policies Limit Media Access to Solitary Confinement

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by Rachel M. Cohen

March 5, 2013

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Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in Ohio Stage Two-Week Hunger Strike

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by Hannah Taleb

June 5, 2012

Announcements

New Fact Sheet: The High Cost of Solitary Confinement

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 31, 2012

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

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 5, 2011

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Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape Takes Her Case to the Supreme Court

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

November 2, 2010

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Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

May 3, 2010

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Dead Man Killing Himself

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by Jean Casella

March 9, 2010

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