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The Alabama Solution, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2025, has been nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary. The film, which highlights the “horrifying realities of life inside Alabama’s prisons,” was made possible by incarcerated activists who documented the terrible cond...
This story was published in collaboration with Truthout.
Grainy footage, filmed with contraband cell phones, forms the backbone of The Alabama Solution, a 2025 Oscar-nominated documentar...
“How can we subject prisoners to unnecessary solitary confinement, knowing its effects, and then expect them to return to our communities as whole people?” —Barack Obama addressing the need for solitary confinement reform in 2016.
When I was senior editor for San Quentin News, it was rare to find articles in mainstream media outlets showing incarcerated peo...
This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement:
Sonya Reed was placed in solitary confinement after her daughter raised $11,000 on GoFundMe for a sick stray cat who lived on Reed’s unit and provided emotional support. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice claims that she was placed in solitary confinement due to an ongoing sol...
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As the new year begins, we want to thank all of the donors who gave during our annual fundraising campaign. Thanks to your generosity, we qualified to receive full matching funds from NewsMatch and the Public Concern Foundation! We are deeply grateful to all of our donors for your faith in our mission and our work...