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Voices from Solitary: They’ll Never Count Me Among the Broken

Lifelong Black Panther Party member Shaykh Ali was first incarcerated in 1967. He re-entered Delaware’s prison system in 1977. While incarcerated, Ali spent the majority of his sentence in solitary confinement. After having served 46 years of a 67-year sentence, Ali was released on April 19, 2023, under Delaware’s compassionate release statute due to various health compli...


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Growing Body of Evidence Shows Solitary Does Not Make Prisons Safer…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement:

In a recent op-ed, Solitary Watch Director Jean Casella and  Duke’s Dr. David Cloud argue that solitary confinement does not make prisons safer. Contrary to the claims of some politicians, research shows that solitary confinement causes lasting harm to those who endure it, the ...


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Punished for Disabilities: Minnesota Schoolchildren Held in Isolation…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New this week from Solitary Watch:

In the most recent Voices from Solitary piece, Rodney Reid, who spent half of his 22 years of incarceration in solitary confinement, reflects on nearly three years in solitary on Rikers Island. His piece examines how isolation worsened the already “depleting, dehumanizing, and beyond deplorable” experience of being...


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In Solitary on Rikers Island

During the 22 years that Rodney Reid was incarcerated, he spent 11 years in solitary confinement. In the following piece, Reid describes his experience on Rikers Island in solitary, where he spent all but eight months of his nearly three years in the infamous New York City jail. Since returning home, Reid says that he has been striving to overcome the barriers of re-entry...


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Colorado Judge: Forced Prison Labor is "Involuntary Servitude”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement:

When Harold Mortis contracted COVID-19, guards forced him to continue working eight hour shifts in the kitchen; if he didn’t, they would revoke his earned time towards early release, remove him from an incentivized living program, and place him in solitary confinement.


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