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• The Lens NOLA reports about two bills that have been introduced in the Louisiana legislature to protect the health of incarcerated people, one to create a medical advisory council to approve policies, and another to eliminate co-pays. In 2016 Solitary Watch’s Katie Rose Quandt and James Ridgeway wrote about substandard medical care at Angola prison […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Rikers Island

Seven Days In Solitary [3/30/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/22]

Voices from Solitary: A Letter to Kalief Browder

Seven Days in Solitary [11/24/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/6/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/22/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/10/21]

A Month in Solitary [5/3/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [12/7/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/9/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/19/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/7/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/27/20]

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/6/20]

Fourteen Days in Solitary [6/8/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/27/20]

Local Jails Were Death Traps Even Before COVID-19. The Pandemic Demands Sweeping—and Permanent—Change.

Seven Days in Solitary [10/21/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/16/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/26/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/12/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/5/19]

Transgender Women of Color Face Crushing Rates of Incarceration, Solitary Confinement, and Abuse

Seven Days in Solitary [7/22/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/8/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/17/19]

How Solitary Confinement Can Lead to a Life Sentence in Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/19]