Transgender Immigrant Detainees Locked in Solitary Confinement
Today’s Advocate has an excellent article by Andrew Harmon, dissecting the abuses faced by transgender detainees in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities. It begins with the story of a...
View ArticleU.S. Holds Hundreds of Detained Immigrants in Solitary Confinement
A cover story in yesterday’s The New York Times exposes the widespread use of solitary confinement on immigrant detainees. Citing figures that it says are incomplete and “probably low,” the Times...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [12/1/13]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • The Los Angeles Times...
View ArticleImmigrant Hunger Strikers Placed in Solitary Confinement at Federal Detention...
Nearly a month ago, at least 750 immigrant detainees at the federal government’s Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, went on hunger strike. The strike included about half the detainees at...
View ArticleSolitary Deaths in Immigrant Detention Centers
If the lockdown units of U.S. prisons comprise a largely hidden world, perhaps most secretive of all are the nation’s immigrant detention centers, where noncitizens live for years in often horrendous...
View ArticleThe Parable of Yarl’s Wood
Guest Post by Dan Moshenberg Editors’ note: Today’s guest post is by Dan Moshenberg, who directs the Women’s Studies Program at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is co-convener of the...
View ArticlePrivate Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots
At the massive Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, West Texas, a riot began two years ago when prisoners in solitary confinement in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) started a fire. They were...
View ArticleFrom BOP to CCA: Federal Prison Director Defects to Private Prison Company
Less than a month after retiring from his post as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Harley G. Lappin has been hired to a top positon at the nation’s largest private, for-profit prison...
View ArticleWhat the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime
Long before the War on Terror, there was the War on Crime. And as much as 9/11 was a watershed event, many aspects of the nation’s response to the terrorist attacks find longstanding precedent in the...
View ArticleNew Report Calls for End to Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention
“Are you broken yet?” Each day Rashed spent in solitary confinement at the Tri-County Detention Center in Illinois, the warden asked him this question. An observant Muslim, Rashed had tried to advocate...
View ArticleBuried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention
Guest Post by Sarah Shourd Sarah Shourd is a writer, educator and prison rights advocate currently based in Oakland, California. She had been living in the Middle East for over a year, teaching Iraqi...
View ArticleThe Ten Worst Prisons in America
“The Ten Worst Prisons in America,” our eleven-part article, premiered yesterday over at MotherJones.com with the notorious ADX Florence federal supermax. A new worst prison will be published each...
View ArticleMeasure to Limit Solitary Confinement Advances in Senate Immigration Bill
The immigration reform bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week includes an amendment that would curtail the use of solitary confinement on immigrant detainees. While the measure’s...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [9/8/13]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • According to the tally kept...
View ArticleNew Directive May Curtail Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week issued a new “directive” that appears aimed at limiting the use of solitary confinement on individuals held in immigrant detention. The directive is...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [2/9/14]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • The ACLU released an online...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [1/31/2016]
• A Syracuse 16-year-old is suing the Onondaga County Justice Center for allegedly placing him in solitary confinement for more than two months. According to one local site, “Chief Onondaga County...
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