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This week, The Marshall Project published a long essay by Matthew Azzano, which was written with the support of a grant from the Solitary Confinement Reporting Project, managed by Solitary Watch with funding from the Vital Projects Fund. Matthew Azzano, 24, was born and raised in Rochester, New York. After serving two years in New York prisons, he is completing a bachelor’s degree […]

Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

Inside the Underground Economy of Solitary Confinement

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by Solitary Confinement Reporting Project

February 24, 2022

Seven Days in Solitary

Seven Days in Solitary [10/22/17]

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by Valerie Kiebala

October 22, 2017

News & Features

Guarding Solitary Confinement

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by Aviva Stahl

April 27, 2016

News & Features

Audit of Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons: An Inside Job Reaches Foregone Conclusions

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

March 2, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Welcome to the SHU

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by Voices from Solitary

November 16, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Solitary Confinement’s Invisible Scars

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by Voices from Solitary

October 31, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Loneliest Place in the World

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by Voices from Solitary

June 3, 2013

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Disciplined Into Madness and Death

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by Voices from Solitary

February 18, 2013

News & Features

New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

September 20, 2012

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Katfish on Life in “The Bucket”

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 5, 2010

News & Features

Lessons from Solitary

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by Solitary Watch Guest Author

June 3, 2010

News & Features

The Lost Boys of Westchester County’s SHU

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

March 26, 2010

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