There were significantly fewer mouths to feed in my apartment this Thanksgiving as my family followed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation not to travel and not to gather in ...

As a solitary-confinement prisoner in Louisiana’s notorious Angola penitentiary, Albert Woodfox was regularly gassed, beaten and restrained by guards. Woodfox survived, his soul and sanity intact, by ...

(WTNH)– History is so important to the way we understand our lives today. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford is committed to that ideal and has awarded the 2020 Stowe Prize to Albert Woodfox ...

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...

A Black inmate in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, faced hair discrimination for refusing to cut his dreadlocks while in prison. Eric McGill Jr. is currently being held in the Lebanon County Correctional ...

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After months of social distancing, many of us are feeling its effects. Experts have delineated the mental and physical health impacts of isolation caused by the pandemic, and those who have ...

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, NY - 2019/10/02: Survivors of solitary confinement, New York State legislators, family members of people in solitary, and other advocates held a rally outside Governor Andrew ...

For 44 years, Albert Woodfox’s entire world was a 6-foot-by-9-foot solitary confinement cell at Louisiana’s infamous Angola Prison. Woodfox’s sentence was the longest stretch of solitary confinement ...

Isolation. Timeout. Lockdown. The hole. Solitary confinement goes by many names, and it can be employed as arbitrarily as the language used to define it. “There is no single standard for anything in ...