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Solitary confinement

The Shawshank Renovation

From descriptions that appear on the websites of former jails that have been converted to hotels. liberty hotel, boston In 1973, prisoners incarcerated in the Charles Street Jail revolted because…

Time After Time

by Brian Nelson,

From Six by Ten, a collection of firsthand accounts of solitary confinement edited by Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass. This story is by Brian Nelson, who was convicted of murder…

The Ultimate Terrorist Factory

by Scott Sayare,

Are French prisons incubating extremism?

In Solitary

by Helen Redmond,

For more than two decades, Willie Bosket spent twenty-three hours a day alone in a nine-by-six-foot cage.

Solo show

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Richard Ross,

My brother’s keeper

by Harper’s Staff,

Problem behavior

by Mie Lewis,

Cruel and unusual punishment

by Regan Good,

Solitary vices

by Harper’s Staff,

The solitary death of Jim McDougal

by T.J. Lowe,

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