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Echoes of Isolation

A 2013 prison hunger strike in California led to a dramatic decline in the use of solitary confinement. More than a decade later, people impacted by solitary reflect on the toll of separation.

Feature • 01.28.2026

I Am Not Your “Other”

I’m a Cambodian-American from Long Beach, California. But to a prison system that limits its population categories to “Black,” “White” and “Hispanic,” I’m the race version of a misfit toy.

Life Inside • 07.09.2020

I Watched a Man Die in Prison. His Last Words Haunt Me.

“There is hardly a day that passes when I do not see his face.”

Life Inside • 03.14.2019

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