Your Prison Blog Is Legal, But It Will Land You in the Hole

Then-federal prisoner Seth Ferranti…

Creating Permanent, Positive Change for Human Rights Through Art

This weekend in New Orleans…

Locked Up: The 411 on Youth Prisons

Last week, the Youth First Initiative released a map of the nation’s 80 oldest and largest youth prisons in 39 states. While the federal government collects and publishes data from all the states on the number of youth who are incarcerated in the U.S., a…

Behind Deborah’s story: Women in solitary confinement

I Was 16 and in Solitary Before I Ever Even Went to Trial 

Solitary confinement does not reduce…

6 X 9: An Immersive Experience of Solitary Confinement

Walls

I have respected your walls because I haven’t wanted to pry you open. In the past, I would’ve been bashing at those walls demanding you come out so…

Solitary Confinement Win in California

Not In Vain: A Death That Changed California’s Prisons

From New York to Florence, Colo., with Solitude

Lower Manhattan is more than 1,800 miles from the small Southern Colorado town of Florence, and seemingly worlds apart, but the two places have at least one thing in common: both have federal prisons that utilize solitary confinement in suspected…

We Hide the Ugliness of Incarcerating Low-risk Kids in Harsh Prisons

By Judge Steven Teske