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New this week from Solitary Watch:

The latest appeal in our annual fundraising campaign describes the “soul-crushing loneliness of solitary confinement,” and points out that “the more than 100,000 people currently in solitary in prisons and jails are victims of the largest incidence of mass torture in the United States today.” Solitary Watch is wor...

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In our overly busy, hyper-connected, screen-centric world, the idea of “alone time” holds a powerful appeal. Solitude and silence are seen as things that create space for relaxation and self-awareness—things to be sought out and savored.

But in the years since I co-founded Solitary Watch, I’ve learned about another kind of “alone” that, when I even try to imagine it...

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New this week from Solitary Watch:

In funding news, all donations to Solitary Watch through the end of the year are doubled, thanks to NewsMatch—the annual matching funds program for nonprofit newsrooms. This is the only time of year we explicitly ...

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New this week from Solitary Watch:

“The High Cost of Solitary” is the eleventh in Solitary Watch’s series of fact sheets that offer information, analysis, and resources on a variety of topics related to solitary confinement. Depending on the facility, solitary units cost between tens and hundreds of millions of dollars per year—approximately three ...

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Friends,

We know how tough these times are for so many. So many things—things we’ve counted on, thought of as immutable—feel completely upside down.

That’s a hard world to live in, and maybe, like us, you’ve become no stranger to despair.

But we’re still here. And we’re grateful you are, too. href="https://solitarywatch.org/don...

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