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Seven Days in Solitary [4/20/14]
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. • April 17 marked Albert...
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New ACLU Report Examines Devastating Impact of Solitary Confinement on Women
Photograph by Richard Ross. Today, the ACLU released Worse than Second Class: Solitary Confinement of Women in the United States. Recognizing that women in solitary are often ignored, the report...
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On the Way to Solitary, Women in Massachusetts Jail Get Strip Searched and...
“When women are moved to the Segregation Unit for mental health or disciplinary reasons, they are strip searched. With four or more officers present, the inmate must: take off all her clothes, lift her...
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Seven Days in Solitary [5/18/14]
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. • The New York Times published...
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Voices from Solitary: Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Transgender Women
Dee Dee is a transgender woman serving a sentence of 60 years to life in New York State, where she has been held in men’s prisons. After being raped twice in general population, she was placed in...
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Transgender Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and...
A SOLITARY WATCH INVESTIGATION Michelle Scott worries about her child, Carey Smith, a transgender woman being held in solitary confinement in a men’s prison. It was Gay Pride weekend in New York City,...
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Civil Rights Groups Demand Change for Transgender Women Held in Solitary in...
Update, 8/20/14: Yesterday, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project released a new call to action to “Demand Safer Housing for Trans People in New York State Prisons.” After once again citing our investigation,...
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“A Girl Hung Herself Yesterday”: Deaths in Custody at California Institution...
Shadae “Dae Dae” Schmidt, who died at CIW in February after being returned to an isolation cell following a stroke. On July 30, 2014, Margarita Murugia was found hanging in her solitary confinement...
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Voices from Solitary: My Tranz Brothers and Sisters Are There, Boxed
Lexy is a 36-year-old transgender woman who was recently released from New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) custody after about two and a half years inside. She spent...
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Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Shackling While...
What does solitary confinement have to do with reproductive justice? Quite a lot, says a new report about reproductive health care in New York’s women’s prisons. The Correctional Association of New...
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Seven Days in Solitary [6/7/15]
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 New Jersey bill hopes to...
View Article“A Form of Torture”: Testimony of Laura Magnani on Solitary Confinement
Laura Magnani, Interim Regional Director of the American Friends Service Committee in San Francisco, testified before the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee on the issue of solitary...
View ArticleAbu Ghraib on the Allegheny: Sexual and Physical Abuse at Pennsylvania Prison
A story out of Pennsylvania reveals the extreme abuse to which some U.S. prisoners are subjected. Yesterday, a suspended prison guard from the State Correctional Institution (SCI)-Pittsburgh was...
View ArticleAbu Ghraib, California: Report Shows Brutal Abuse of Prisoners in LA County...
A report released yesterday by the ACLU National Prison Project and ACLU of Southern California shows a pattern of brutal abuse in the Los Angeles County Jail system, which at times crossed the line...
View ArticleNew Resource: Solitary Confinement FAQ
Our amazing intern/reporter/researcher Sal Rodriguez, author of several fact sheets and articles on this site, has produced a new resource: Frequently Asked Questions on Solitary Confinement. Questions...
View ArticleTransgender Immigrant Detainees Locked in Solitary Confinement
Today’s Advocate has an excellent article by Andrew Harmon, dissecting the abuses faced by transgender detainees in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities. It begins with the story of a...
View ArticleNew Directive May Curtail Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week issued a new “directive” that appears aimed at limiting the use of solitary confinement on individuals held in immigrant detention. The directive is...
View ArticleWomen in Solitary Confinement: “The Isolation Degenerates Us Into Madness”
A mass prisoner hunger strike rocked California’s prison system this past summer, drawing international attention to the extensive use of solitary confinement in the United States. Increasingly,...
View ArticleWomen in Solitary Confinement: Sent to Solitary for Reporting Sexual Assault
It seems absurd that a person who has been sexually assaulted would be punished for speaking up, especially since prison policy prohibits sexual contact between staff and the people whom they guard....
View ArticleWomen in Solitary Confinement: Buried Inside the Federal Prison System
This past September, in response to continued criticism around its use of solitary confinement, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) began an internal audit of its “restricted housing operations.” As...
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