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Thomas Bartlett Whitaker is serving time in solitary confinement on Death Row at the Polunksy Unit in Livingston, Texas, after being convicted in 2007 of hiring a gunman to kill his family. While in prison, Whitaker, now 36, completed a bachelor’s degree in English and sociology, graduating summa cum laude, and he is studying toward a master’s […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices From Solitary: The War of All Against All

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July 27, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Solitary Is a Living Death

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June 21, 2016

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Pregnant in Prison, Birth in Shackles

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October 30, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: We Are All Animals

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October 9, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: A Second-by-Second Attack on Your Soul

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August 4, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: Segregation Medical

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July 28, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: Injury x Insult

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July 21, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: Fly in the Ointment

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July 13, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: Phantom Souls

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June 19, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Safari from Pelikkkan Bay

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April 16, 2015

News & Features

Voices from ADX: Living “Inside America’s Toughest Prison”

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 2, 2015

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “I Am Somebody’s Daughter”

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February 24, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: On Hunger Strike Against Brutal Treatment in Florida Prisons

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February 14, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: Cycle of Despair

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January 5, 2015

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Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death

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December 25, 2014

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Voices from Solitary: Is It Normal to Think That?

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November 15, 2014

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Voices from Solitary: Is “Torture” Too Strong of a Word?

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November 7, 2014

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Voices from Solitary: Survivors Speak

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October 21, 2014

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Voices from Solitary: Freedom Shares My Cell

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October 16, 2014

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Voices from Solitary: At War With My Own Self

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September 30, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part VII

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September 26, 2014

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Voices from Solitary: Dare to Think

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September 13, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: A Day in the Life, Part VI

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September 2, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: What Have You Done to My Brother?

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August 27, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: 23 and 1

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June 13, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Playing “The Con Game” at Pelican Bay

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June 6, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary, Analyzing Isolation, Part III

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May 28, 2014

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Voices from Solitary: “That Which Does Not Kill Us…”

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May 19, 2014

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: Analyzing Isolation, Part I

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April 21, 2014

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