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Solitary Confinement
Former Prisoner’s New Book Offers Rare Look Into Nation’s Most Secretive Prison
Having survived the most restrictive supermax prison in the country on a trumped-up charge, Eric King tells what he saw.
As Prisons Deal With Heat Waves, Climate Crisis Makes Abolition Even More Urgent
While the planet continues to warm, conditions in prisons, and specifically in solitary confinement, continue to worsen.
People in NY Prison’s Mental Health Unit Kept in Solitary Confinement, Suit Says
In recent months, at least two people on the unit have attempted suicide and at least three have gone on hunger strike.
ICE Is Incarcerating Immigrants at Angola, Louisiana’s Max Security Prison
Angola sits on the grounds of a former slave plantation and is notorious for violating incarcerated people’s rights.
In Black August, We Turn Destructive Spaces Into Laboratories for Liberation
This is not just a month of mourning — it's a time for mobilization and recommitment to prison abolition.
NY Prison Officials Refuse to Comply with Law Limiting Solitary Confinement
A rights group argues the state’s corrections system should be found in contempt for failing to comply with the law.
I Wrote This From Solitary Confinement. I Refuse to Let It Break Me.
“The hole” is a prison within a prison, where I’m just another number without a name.
Having Survived Solitary, I Refuse to Conflate the Imaginable With the Possible
White supremacy might limit what we can easily imagine, but through writing, we can shape more liberatory futures.
NY’s Prison Guard Strike Has Roots in Decades of Racialized Deindustrialization
The guards’ demand for impunity is about the maintenance of violence at the core of the system, says Andrea R. Morrell.
New York Prison Guards Strike, Denouncing Limits on Solitary Confinement
Prisons are institutions of warfare that masquerade as apolitical instruments of crime control, says an anthropologist.