#ErnstThälmann, the leader of #KPD, the German #CommunistParty, was born on #ThisDayInHistory in 1886. Loyalty to #Stalin did not save him from #Hitler. Once the #Nazis quit torturing him, he spent eleven years in #SolitaryConfinement before being executed at #Buchenwald in 1944.
Activist Susan Rosenberg was one of the first people to be imprisoned at the High Security Unit, the first federal control unit designed for women. That was in 1986. The censorship and repression she describes persist in the #solitaryconfinement units of today.
Read here: tinyurl.com/38zuychy
Powerful NBA Arena Activation in Detroit Highlights Solitary Confinement Issues #USA #Detroit #NBA #NEWBORN #SolitaryConfinement
A dark room with a single, bare incandescent lightbulb illuminating a small portion of a concrete wall in soft yellow light, casting a shadow on a cord that dangles. Gold and white text centered to the top half of the image displays a quote by Jean Casella and David Cloud: “The evidence is clear: Ending prolonged solitary confinement is a matter of prison and public safety, as well as humanity. The time to act upon this evidence is now.” Gold and white text in bottom fifth of the graphic reads: “read more in the Letters for Liberation Newsletter.”
This month's #newsletter highlights #abolitionist publications, including an op-ed written by Jean Casella of @solitarywatch.bsky.social and Dr. David Cloud of The Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice) cataloguing the harms of #SolitaryConfinement & urging #prisons to eliminate the practice.
#SolitaryConfinement may only be imposed in exceptional circumstances, and "prolonged" solitary confinement of more than 15 consecutive days is regarded as a form of torture.- The Mandela Rules www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#AbolishICE
#WeSeeYouLouisiana
#AbolitionNow
#CloseAngolaPrison
It’s Like Being Buried Alive’: The Experience of #SolitaryConfinement - Amid renewed debate over the controversial practice, an archival FRONTLINE documentary offers a visceral portrait of life in solitary at one maximum-security prison. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... via
@pbsnews.org
It’s Like Being Buried Alive’: The Experience of #SolitaryConfinement - Amid renewed debate over the controversial practice, an archival FRONTLINE documentary offers a visceral portrait of life in solitary at one maximum-security prison. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... via @pbsnews.org
be responded to with the indignity of being stripped, searched and stuffed into #SolitaryConfinement without even a blanket. I bet the sickos do this to #nonverbal #autistics too. I know how hard it is to answer rational questions when in a #cptsd #flashback #crisis firsthand.
3/ Browder spent much of his 3 years as an innocent teen, w/out trial, at Rikers in the “bing,” aka #solitaryconfinement. Isolation caused him (like so many others) to have a psychotic break leading to cutting & suicide attempts which finally culminated in his death on the outside, haunted by it all
Powerful report from @prisonpolicy.org : 'Winnable Reforms in 2026' highlights dozens of achievable changes that could reduce #massincarceration, end harmful practices like #solitaryconfinement, and improve reentry—without needing massive new laws. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/winn...
Two funding leaders make a forceful case that siloed grantmaking is holding advocates back from confronting Trump-era immigrant detention and solitary confinement.
Guest Contributors, Scott Moyer and Rini Chakraborty Reports: tinyurl.com/4xdwnjfp
#SolitaryConfinement #ImmigrantRights
Lifelong Black Panther Party member Shaykh Ali's homecoming after 46 years of incarceration mirrors a soldier's return from war. #Solitaryconfinement left him with PTSD but Ali asserts "I never let it break me. I’ve always been free!"
Read more here: tinyurl.com/4echs759
Two funding leaders make a forceful case that siloed grantmaking is holding advocates back from confronting Trump-era immigrant detention and solitary confinement.
Guest Contributors, Scott Moyer and Rini Chakraborty: tinyurl.com/4xdwnjfp
#SolitaryConfinement #ImmigrantRights #ImmigrationDetention
As #BlackHistoryMonth2026 ends, we revisit our fact sheet on racism & #solitaryconfinement.
Due to delays in receiving diagnoses, Black people already
experiencing mental illness disproportionately suffer the psychological effects of solitary.
Click the 🔗 to find out more: tinyurl.com/yc3t4z28
#SolitaryConfinement
#InTheJet
#For100years
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Park that jet in Arizona and let him bake in the summer and freeze in the winter.
youtube.com/shorts/zzqdL...
"Please do not come to the United States...it is not safe here anymore."
"If they're killing American citizens, what would they do to me?"
"Do not come. Do not come."
"Please don't support us anymore."
#TravelAdvisory #Tourism
#GlobalBoycott
#ICE #Boycott #WorldCup
#SolitaryConfinement
ICE agents as bounty hunters.
“Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says. WTF?!
#abolishICE #solitaryconfinement
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
If you haven’t already seen the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Alabama Solution” — please stop whatever you are doing and watch it right now on a streaming platform.
This movie and its brave protagonists will radicalize you and haunt you. #AlabamaSolution #prisons #solitaryconfinement
Lack of education is proven to be a root cause of incarceration. Yet, larger sums of taxpayer money continue to fund prisons (and #solitaryconfinement) rather than schools.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/3b7a53ks
Of nearly 2 million incarcerated people, many are Black. They're 4x more likely to be put in #solitaryconfinement than their white counterparts. To understand why, we have to look to history and all the ways Black people are erased. #BlackHistoryMonth2026
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Virginia is taking a bold step towards reform by capping solitary confinement for adults at 15 days and launching a study to protect youth from excessive room confinement.
Learn more here
#VA #MentalHealthReform #JuvenileJustice #SolitaryConfinement #VirginiaPublicSafety #CitizenPortal
Woman in TX prison placed in #solitaryconfinement after her daughter made a GoFundMe for vet care for a beloved prison cat: thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/15/p...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...
“I spent seven months in solitary,” Dr. Christie said in the 2023 speech. “Don’t let anybody kid you: No one comes out of solitary sane. My nightmares are awful.”
#RenfrewChristie
#SolitaryConfinement
If I ever go to #prison for saving animals. or some other reason, please put me in #solitaryconfinement.
I’m convinced i will that better off then
with a lot of #shadypeople.
Just allow me to keep my iPad and my charger
and a place to charge my iPad.
and that’s all I need.
That's because the conditions at ADX are some of the most restrictive in the federal system. Unlike in other prisons, where #SolitaryConfinement is often reserved as a punishment for bad behavior & there are opportunities for prisoners to spend time in groups, in ADX, the prisoners are always […]
10 of the prisoners were transferred to one of the most restrictive maximum-security prisons in the US, an infamous facility in Colorado nicknamed "the Alcatraz of the Rockies" where every prisoner is kept in #SolitaryConfinement. 2 were taken to states where prosecutors have pledged to seek the […]
Read the full analysis:
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#SolitaryConfinement #EndTorture @solitaryconf.bsky.social
UN expert alarmed over 'inhumane and undignified' imprisonment of Imran Khan in Pakistan yespunjab.com?p=194223
#ImranKhan #PTI #PakistanNews #UNHumanRights #SolitaryConfinement #AdialaJail #HumanRightsPakistan #PoliticalPrisoner #TortureAllegations #AliceJillEdwards
Ten years ago, the leading cause of death among detained immigrants was suicide. With ICE's increased activity, there's no telling how many immigrants with mental illnesses will experience worsening symptoms due to being placed in #solitaryconfinement.
Read more here: tinyurl.com/mrup4ty4
