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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. This article is more than 5 years old. The Federal Bureau of ...

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 ...

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 ...

When John asked for help, he was told that no one was coming. The staff said it was because of COVID-19. Then, as John begged to speak to someone, they said mental health staff wasn’t there. John ...

Bryan Washington, guest judge for our 2020 short story contest, is always on the lookout for stories displaying “a keen sense of place and a palpable intimacy.” Dutch Simmons answers that call with ...