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The following comes from Joseph Stanwick, who has spent nearly two decades in solitary confinement in Texas. In this letter to Solitary Watch, he describes his last holiday season, which was spent under lockdown status. In supermax prisons and solitary confinement units, where people rarely leave their cells to begin with, lockdown often entails further deprivations of things like regular […]

Voices from Solitary

Supermax Prisons

Voices from Solitary: Thin Comfort

Seven Days in Solitary [12/15/13]

Solitary Confinement: Too Controversial for Costco

How Many People Are In Solitary Confinement in California’s Prisons?

Voices from Solitary: “Finally Out and Among the Living”

“This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse”: An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

Voices from Solitary: “A Prison Where the Building Becomes the Shackles”

Seven Days in Solitary [11/24/13]

Federal Bureau of Prisons Details Plans for Limited “Audit” of Solitary Confinement Practices

Voices from Solitary: Life in H-Unit, ADX Federal Supermax

In States That “Reduce” Their Use of Solitary Confinement, Suffering Continues for Those Left Behind

Seven Days in Solitary [11/10/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/3/13]

Prison Segregation and Racial Disparities

Seven Days in Solitary [10/27/13]

One Month After Historic Hunger Strike, California Lawmakers Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

Under Fire, Federal Bureau of Prisons Audits Use of Solitary Confinement—and Buys a New Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [10/13/13]

Voices from Solitary: “I Live Each Day Contemplating Death”

Seven Days in Solitary [10/6/13]

Federal Appeals Court Considers Tommy Silverstein’s 30 Years in Extreme Solitary Confinement

New Project: Photo Requests from Solitary

Inside ADX Supermax: “A Bloody Nightmare”

Seven Days in Solitary [9/8/13]

California Prison Hunger Strike Ends After 60 Days

A Month in Solitary [8/31/13]

California Prison Hunger Strikers to Be Force-Fed

Day 41 of California Hunger Strike: CDCR Still Insists It’s A Gang Power Play

Voices from Solitary: The Torture Chamber