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Private Prisons

• 40-year-old Efraín Romero de la Rosa died this week in an apparent suicide, while being held in solitary confinement at the Stewart Detention Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Georgia run by private prison company CoreCivic. De la Rosa, a man originally from Puebla, Mexico but living in Raleigh, North Carolina, suffered […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [7/15/18]

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by Valerie Kiebala

July 15, 2018

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by Valerie Kiebala

June 17, 2018

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June 10, 2018

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June 3, 2018

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Seven Days in Solitary [5/27/18]

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May 27, 2018

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Seven Days in Solitary [4/22/18]

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April 22, 2018

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Seven Days in Solitary [4/15/18]

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April 15, 2018

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Seven Days in Solitary [3/25/18]

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March 25, 2018

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March 4, 2018

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by Valerie Kiebala

February 25, 2018

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by Valerie Kiebala

February 18, 2018

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by Valerie Kiebala

February 11, 2018

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January 14, 2018

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by Valerie Kiebala

December 31, 2017

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Seven Days in Solitary [10/15/17]

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by Valerie Kiebala

October 15, 2017

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Seven Days in Solitary [10/8/2017]

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by Valerie Kiebala

October 8, 2017

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Seven Days in Solitary [8/14/2016]

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by Aviva Stahl

August 14, 2016

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January 31, 2016

News & Features

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

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by Victoria Law

July 7, 2014

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Seven Days in Solitary [6/8/14]

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by Jean Casella

June 8, 2014

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Private Prison Giant CCA Weighs in on Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella

March 12, 2014

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In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

November 13, 2013

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Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash With Prison Reform

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 21, 2013

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Mentally Ill Man Dies, Injured and Alone, in a Tulsa Jail Cell

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

November 5, 2012

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New Ban on Solitary Confinement for Child Prisoners in Mississippi

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 29, 2012

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New Federal Budget: Plenty of Money for Prisons

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 25, 2012

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From BOP to CCA: Federal Prison Director Defects to Private Prison Company

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 7, 2011

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Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 21, 2011

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Another Prisoner With Mental Illness Dies in Isolation

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 21, 2010

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