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Women in California Prison Isolation Units Face Overcrowding and Despair 1 Jul 2013 | 09:50 pm
Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla, California Women in Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) are reporting being held in Administrative Segregation (Ad Seg) for over three...
Solitary Survivor Sarah Shourd Joins SW to Produce Play Featuring Voices from Solitary Confinement 26 Jun 2013 | 04:18 pm
Sarah Shourd has joined Solitary Watch as a contributing editor and director of an innovative theater project based on the experiences of people in solitary confinement in the United States. Sarah, wh...
Angola 3′s Herman Wallace, Gravely Ill, Still Held in Isolation 24 Jun 2013 | 09:54 pm
Herman Wallace, 71, has been diagnosed with liver cancer. He is being held in a locked prison hospital room at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center at St. Gabriel, Louisiana. The prognosis is grave, acc...
Seven Days in Solitary [6/23/13] 23 Jun 2013 | 07:30 pm
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. • According to the tally kep...
Solitary Watch Print Edition 22 Jun 2013 | 08:22 am
On this first day of summer, it occurs to us that we’ve never posted our spring newsletter, which went out to 500+ people in solitary more than a month ago. This quarter’s print edition includes artic...
Voices from Solitary: 13.5 Square Feet 20 Jun 2013 | 07:49 pm
Menard Correctional Center is the largest maximum security prison in the state of Illinois. A December 2011 report by the John Howard Association, a prison watchdog group, depicts Menard as decrepit, ...
Seven Days in Solitary [6/16/13] 15 Jun 2013 | 08:52 pm
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. • According to the tally kept...
Records Show Excessive Use of Force at Colorado Supermax 15 Jun 2013 | 06:01 pm
Records kept by the Colorado Department of Corrections show 61 instances from March 1, 2012 to March 1 of this year of corrections officers using force on men held at the Colorado State Penitentiary (...
Voices from Solitary: “Death Row Diary” of Florida Man Scheduled to Die Tonight 12 Jun 2013 | 10:36 pm
William Van Poyck, 58 years old and on death row at the Florida State Prison in Starke, is scheduled to die at the hands of the state tonight at 7 pm. In 1987 he was convicted of murdering prison guar...
Suicide in Solitary: A Mother Remembers Her Son 11 Jun 2013 | 09:21 pm
Yesterday we published a guest post by the Human Rights Coalition (HRC) about the U.S. Department of Justice’s scathing report on the Pennsylvania prison SCI Cresson. According to the DOJ, “Cresson ro...
