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This article is published in partnership with the Crime Report.   When the pandemic started, many prisons and jails throughout the country responded by locking people down in their cells for 22 to 24 hours a day, and using solitary confinement cells as quarantine units. In some ways, these lockdown measures seemed like an intuitive response to […]

News & Features

Why Lockdowns Can’t Protect People in Prison From Deadly Viruses

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by Annalena Wolcke

June 15, 2021

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/8/2017]

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by Valerie Kiebala

October 8, 2017

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [7/09/2017]

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by Aviva Stahl

July 9, 2017

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In California Death Row’s “Adjustment Center,” Condemned Men Wait in Solitary Confinement

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by Alyssa Stryker

April 13, 2016

News & Features

Day 36 of California Hunger Strike: Hundreds Still Protesting Isolation Policies

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by Sal Rodriguez

August 12, 2013

News & Features

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

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 21, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Loneliness and Solitude

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by Sal Rodriguez

October 1, 2011

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Cash-Strapped California to Spend $500 Million for New “Condemned Inmate Complex” (Death Row)

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 20, 2010

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