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This article was published in partnership with Truthout. When the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spiked across the nation in late 2021, approximately 1,350 people incarcerated in the District of Columbia Jail were sequestered in solitary confinement conditions in their cells for 22 hours a day. “It was dehumanizing,” said Russell Rowe, of the repeated COVID lockdowns […]

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COVID-Fueled Solitary Confinement Still Plagues Prisons and Jails

New York’s Oldest Supermax Prison Closes as State Prepares to Implement Law Limiting Solitary Confinement

Will Biden Step Up on Solitary Confinement?

Inside the Underground Economy of Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [2/23/22]

The Truth Behind Dennis Hope’s Decades of Torture in Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [2/16/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/9/22]

Voices From Solitary: A Day in My Box

Seven Days in Solitary [2/2/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/26/22]

Voices From Solitary: Among the Blood of Last Year’s June

Seven Days in Solitary [1/19/22]

Fourteen Days in Solitary [1/12/22]

Fourteen Days in Solitary [12/29/21]

A Last Word on Solitary Confinement for 2021—and a Last Chance to Support Solitary Watch

Voices from Solitary: A Letter to Kalief Browder

Santa Was in Solitary and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

What Will It Take to End Solitary Confinement?

“It’s Like a Slow War, Like a Slow Burn. Like a Slow, Quiet Form of Torture.”

How Not to Fight a Prison Pandemic [Update]

Help Solitary Watch Expose the Torture of Solitary Confinement

Seven Days in Solitary [12/1/21]

Support the Future of Solitary Watch

Voices from Solitary: What My Mother Doesn’t Know

Voices from Solitary: In Prisons, Mass Solitary Confinement Turns Quarantine Into Punishment

Seven Days in Solitary [10/27/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/13/21]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/6/21]