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Page Text: by Katie Rose Quandt and Allison Altshule March 22, 2022 This article was published in partnership with Truthout. When the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spiked across the nation in late 2021, approximately 1,350 people incarcerated in the District of Columbia Jail were sequestered in solitary confinement conditions in their cells for 22 hours a day. “It was dehumanizing,” said Russell Rowe, of the repeated COVID lockdowns […] Check in with Solitary Watch every week Each week, receive an email with our latest original reporting, plus a curated set of links to the best and most important new work on solitary confinement from around the web. Once a month, we’ll also look at larger trends and explore ideas about the punishment paradigm that sustains solitary—and growing efforts to challenge it.

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