On AlterNet: solitary confinement
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "solitary confinement"
Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet. August 11, 2008.
With former prisoners and their families at the helm, the movement to abolish supermax prisons and end solitary confinement is gaining ground.
Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn. June 12, 2008.
At Louisiana's notorious Angola Prison, which sits on a former slave plantation, prisoners are doing more than surviving. They are organizing.
Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet. March 24, 2008.
In supermax prisons, 23 hours a day of solitary confinement is the norm. How did our prison system become so cruel?
Brooke Shelby Biggs, AlterNet. April 17, 2007.
Americans shamefully imagine that spending a life sentence in solitary confinement could only happen in faraway countries. But two men in Louisiana's Angola prison know otherwise.
