Seven Days in Solitary [3/9/14]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • Gawker published a letter...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [9/21/2014]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • AP reporter Adam Geller...
View ArticleAfter 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Will the Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Be...
Albert Woodfox in 2012. Louisiana’s Attorney General has called Woodfox the “most dangerous man on the planet.” In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...
View ArticleFederal Judge Orders Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Unconditionally Released After...
Update, June 12, 4:30 pm: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to continue the stay and block release until the State of Louisiana’s appeal is heard, but they have also granted an “expedited”...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [9/06/2015]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • Coverage continued of the...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [9/27/15]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • A Louisiana judge has...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [11/8/2015]
• In Jezebel, Solitary Watch Contributing Writer Aviva Stahl interviews Synthia China Blast, a transgender woman who was isolated in involuntary protective custody for almost 20 years. Blast talks...
View ArticleWill the Supreme Court Free Albert Woodfox After 43 Years in Solitary?
Albert Woodfox, the last remaining incarcerated member of the “Angola 3,” is appealing to the Supreme Court for his release after a tumultuous succession of appeals and overturned decisions. Sent to...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Angola 3's Albert Woodfox Freed from Prison After 43 Years in...
The following statement was released by the International Campaign to Free the Angola 3 at 2:10 pm Eastern time: Just moments ago, Albert Woodfox, the last remaining member of the Angola 3 still behind...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [10/23/2016]
• Venida Browder has died due to complications from a heart attack. Her son, Kalief, committed suicide about 16 months ago after spending several years in solitary confinement on Rikers Island. • An...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [10/30/2016]
• In the year since the historic settlement agreement in Ashker v. Brown, there has been a 99% decrease in long-term solitary confinement at California’s Pelican Bay Prison. Center for Constitutional...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [1/15/2017]
• At the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Facility in Shirley, MA, “dozens” of people allegedly refused to be locked in their cells after fights broke out on a unit. “According to the Department of...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [10/1/2017]
In the Burlington Free Press, Vermont’s Secretary of Human Services Al Gobeille claimed the state is in a “mental health crisis,” as it keeps running out of beds for those in urgent need of inpatient...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [10/15/17]
• The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on a visit to Pennsylvania’s prisons by Are Høidal, warden of Halden prison in Norway, which is often cited as having the most humane prison system in the world....
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [11/12/17]
• One of the Angola 3, Albert Woodfox, who served the longest stretch in solitary confinement documented in the United States of 43 years and 10 months, discussed on Love + Radio his experience as a...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [3/11/19]
• The WAMU radio show “1A” hosted Terry Kupers, a leading expert on the psychological effects of solitary confinement, and Robert Hood, former warden of the ADX federal supermax in Florence, Colorado,...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [3/25/19]
• WAVY reported that a federal judge issued an opinion following the settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of 24-year-old Jamycheal Mitchell, who died in solitary confinement at...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [4/1/19]
• Democracy Now! interviewed Albert Woodfox, who spent over 44 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana after being wrongfully convicted of a prison guard’s murder. Woodfox discussed his recently...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [5/27/19]
• NBC News, The Intercept and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) jointly published the findings of a major investigation into the use of solitary confinement in...
View ArticleGroundbreaking New Report Exposes Impact of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana...
UPDATE: More than 50 people attended the press conference on Tuesday, June 25, where representatives of Solitary Watch, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [7/13/19]
• As NorthJersey.com reported, Governor Phil Murphy signed the Isolated Confinement Restriction Act, hailed as “the strongest legislation restricting solitary in the nation,” by ACLU of New Jersey...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [7/29/19]
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that U.S. District Court Judge Billy Ray issued an injunction for Fulton County, Georgia, to release mentally ill women from solitary confinement within 30...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [8/26/19]
• According to the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), nine people held at Scotland Correctional Institution in North Carolina, calling themselves the Scotland 9, have been hunger...
View ArticleLouisiana on Lockdown: The History of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana
The following is an excerpt from the report Louisiana on Lockdown, published this past June in a collaboration between Solitary Watch, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [9/30/19]
• Katherine Hawkins, the Senior Legal Analyst for the Project on Government Oversight, testified on Thursday before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security about the conditions in Immigration and...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [8/3/20]
• The Equal Justice Initiative reported that 28-year-old Charles Braggs died in solitary confinement at the St. Clair Correctional Facility in Alabama on July 27, three days after the segregation...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [11/2/20]
• The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that a circuit court recently ruled that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC) violated the 8th Amendment rights of Ernest Porter by holding him in...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [12/28/20]
• USA Today published an opinion piece by solitary survivors Johnny Perez, Jack Morris, and Pamela Winn, all of whom now advocate for the rights of incarcerated people. All three recounted their own...
View ArticleSix Weeks in Solitary [4/5/21]
• According to a February 19 article from the Davis Vanguard, incarcerated individuals in the California Medical Facility are suffering from mental health problems due to a lockdown that was imposed in...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary 8/10/22
New this week from Solitary Watch: • The latest in our series of monthly dispatches, The Word from Solitary Watch, explores depictions of solitary confinement and its myriad harms through film,...
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