May 25, 2022
Three years after ICIJ’s ‘Solitary Voices,’ isolation still commonplace in US prisons and detention centers
President Joe Biden pledged to end solitary confinement. Advocates are still waiting.
President Joe Biden pledged to end solitary confinement. Advocates are still waiting.
Now a World Poker Tour champion, Ilyas Muradi still faces the threat of deportation after spending more than two years in immigration detention, including months in an isolation cell.
US immigration detainees say they're scared to report coronavirus symptoms, for fear of solitary confinement.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin has slammed the “rampant and unnecessary overuse of solitary confinement” at U.S. immigration detention centers.
U.S. immigration authorities were warned as early as May 2018 that it was placing detainees with serious mental health difficulties in solitary confinement for “shockingly” long periods.
I wanted to shed light on the future use of solitary confinement, but instead, I got a hefty envelope from a private law firm.
U.S. authorities have subjected immigrants to “horrific, inhumane, punitive, and unlawful conditions,” including extended and unwarranted isolation in solitary confinement cells.
In the first 15 months of the Trump administration, U.S. immigration authorities locked thousands of detainees in solitary confinement cells, some for months at a time.
A scathing new report from a government watchdog has criticized US immigration authorities use of solitary confinement.
Following Solitary Voices, US Senator Richard Blumenthal has called the immigration agency's use of solitary confinement “inhumane” and “un-American."
Why do immigrants get put in isolation? Here's a short guide to what we learned about solitary confinement and its use by U.S. immigration officials.
Karandeep Singh, a 29-year-old Sikh from northern India, talks about life after solitary confinement.