Bobby Shmurda’s First Day Out
The Brooklyn rapper, fresh out of prison on parole, talks about life on the inside and where he goes next.
Solitary Confinement
How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary
As one of the Angola 3, he was in isolation longer than any other American. Then he came home to face his future.
The Deadly Consequences of Solitary With a Cellmate
Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.
From Gitmo to an American Supermax, The Horrors of Solitary Confinement
On the psychological damage punitive isolation inflicts upon Guantánamo and American prisoners alike.
Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box
An investigation into the practice of putting teenagers in solitary confinement.
The Plot From Solitary
How four prisoners in solitary confinement launched the largest hunger strike in American history.
A Sentence Worse Than Death
The author on his 25 years in solitary confinement.
Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.
“For hours, days, I fixated on the patch of sunlight cast against my wall through those barred and grated windows. When, after five weeks, my knees buckled and I fell to the ground utterly broken, sobbing and rocking to the beat of my heart, it was the patch of sunlight that brought me back.”
The Gray Box
On solitary confinement:
"Two or three hundred years from now people will look back on this lockdown mania like we look back on the burning of witches."
Fortresses of Solitude
Inside Florence, Colorado’s ADX prison, possibly one of the most isolated places on Earth, where Tommy Silverstein has spent the last 27 years without human contact.
Hellhole
Is long-term solitary confinement torture?
The Caged Life
In 2005, the prisoner who had set the U.S. penal system record for years in solitary confinement was moved to what’s called “the Alcatraz of the Rockies”—a jail in Colorado built just for him.
