Security Housing Unit (SHU) Archives

Security Housing Unit (SHU)

• According to the Mercury News, 57-year-old Todd Ashker filed a complaint about the “torturous” conditions in solitary at Kern Valley State Prison. Ashker was the lead plaintiff in a 2016 landmark settlement that ordered Ashker and hundreds of others to be released from solitary confinement at the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU). But years […]

Seven Days in Solitary

Security Housing Unit (SHU)

Seven Days in Solitary [1/4/20]

Voices from Solitary: Flipping the Script

Seven Days in Solitary [9/14/20]

Inside the Hole: Enduring Solitary Confinement in California

Seven Days in Solitary [5/25/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/18/20]

Voices from Solitary: Message from a Solitary Confinement Survivor for People Under Self-Quarantine

Seven Days in Solitary [4/13/20]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/26/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/22/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/3/19]

Voices from Solitary: Six by Ten

Voices from Solitary: I Am Enduring

Seven Days in Solitary [10/21/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/30/18]

Voices from Solitary: A Concrete Death

Seven Days in Solitary [8/5/18]

Voices from Solitary: Women Held in Isolation in New York Speak Out

Seven Days in Solitary [7/22/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/24/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/12/17]