Last Days Of Solitary

New Documentary Examines One State’s Struggle To Reform Solitary Confinement

An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Ariz.
Published in partnership with Shadowproof.
“You lose all feeling. You become immune to everything,” says Sam Caison, a prisoner who has been in and out of solitary confinement. “You’re not the same after spending so much time by yourself in those conditions. I don’t care who you are, you don’t come out the same person.”