Support Our Holiday Project: “Lifelines to Solitary”
Many, many thanks to those of you who have generously given to our “Lifelines from Solitary” Project so far. We have already raised more than a thousand dollars to help us send cards, letters, and...
View ArticleVoices from Solitary: “That’s the Only Mail I Get…”
The following was written a few days before Christmas by a man, now in his fifties, who has been in prison for 26 years. He wrote this in response to receiving a holiday card and note from Solitary...
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Dear Solitary Watchers: We approach our readers with an appeal for support only once a year. And even then, we don’t ask you to help us with general operating expenses, but rather with a very special...
View ArticleDear Solitary Watchers…
Dear Solitary Watchers: We reach out directly to our readers with an appeal for support once a year, and only for a very special part of our work. Throughout the year, while we carry out research and...
View ArticleSupport "Lifelines to Solitary"
Dear Readers: We reach out to you just once a year to ask for your support. And even now, we seek your help not for our regular research and reporting work, which catalyzes change by documenting the...
View ArticlePlease Support "Lifelines to Solitary" This Year
Dear Readers: We reach out to you just once a year to ask for your support. And even now, we seek your help not for our regular research and reporting work, which catalyzes change by documenting the...
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Please Support "Lifelines to Solitary"
Dear Friends: We reach out to you just once a year to ask for your support. And even now, we seek your help not for our regular research and reporting work, which catalyzes change by documenting the...
View ArticleLetters from the Hole
Every year, hundreds of human beings in solitary confinement reach out to Solitary Watch through the old-fashioned practice of letter-writing. A while back, I wrote this piece about what it is like to...
View ArticleVoices from Solitary: In Memoriam
As the year ends, we are republishing the following essay by Joseph Stanwick, who spent nearly two decades in solitary confinement in Texas prisons. “I’ve seen men cut on themselves with razor blades,...
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Solitary Watch Print Edition Reaches Over 5,000 People Held in Solitary...
About a year after our founding in 2009, when we realized that the shoestring project called Solitary Watch was something that desperately needed to be maintained and expanded over the long term, we...
View ArticleHelp Us Extend a Lifeline to People in Solitary Confinement
Dear Friends: Yesterday, we wrote about people living in solitary confinement who found the strength and courage to bring us news from inside a secret world of torment and abuse. We shared with you a...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [10/28/18]
• San Jose Inside reported on the settlement of the 2015 class action lawsuit Chavez v. County of Santa Clara, which challenged the use of solitary confinement at San Jose’s Main Jail as...
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Help Us Extend a Lifeline to People in Solitary Confinement
Dear Readers, Supporters, Colleagues, and Friends: In recent weeks, we’ve written to you about the work we are doing at Solitary Watch to bring an end to the use of long-term solitary confinement in...
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Help Us Show People in Solitary That They Are Not Forgotten
Dear Readers, Supporters, and Friends: For tens of thousands of people locked away in U.S. prisons and jails, the extreme deprivation and isolation of solitary confinement causes unimaginable...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [10/28/18]
• San Jose Inside reported on the settlement of the 2015 class action lawsuit Chavez v. County of Santa Clara, which challenged the use of solitary confinement at San Jose’s Main Jail as...
View ArticleShow People in Solitary Confinement That They Are Not Forgotten
Dear Friends: For tens of thousands of people locked away in U.S. prisons and jails, the extreme deprivation and isolation of solitary confinement causes unimaginable suffering. One person living in...
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