Jean Casella

Jean Casella is a writer, editor, and consultant to mission-driven media projects. She is co-founder and editor of Solitary Watch (www.solitarywatch.com), and in 2012 was named a Soros Justice Media Fellow by the Open Society Foundations.

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Prisoners to Remain on Rikers Island As Hurricane Sandy Heads for New York
Mon Oct. 29, 2012 10:07 AM PDT

Federal Prisons Chief to Inmates: Don't Kill Yourself
Fri Aug. 10, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Nearly 6 Million Americans Can't Vote Due to Felon Disenfranchisement Laws
Fri Jul. 13, 2012 2:30 AM PDT

Senators Finally Ponder the Question: Is Solitary Confinement Wrong?
Tue Jun. 19, 2012 12:58 PM PDT

Mass Appeal to Governors: Don't Privatize Prisons
Fri Mar. 2, 2012 4:00 AM PST

Another Dubious Execution Under Rick Perry?
Mon Nov. 7, 2011 3:00 AM PST

Abu Ghraib on the Allegheny?
Wed Sep. 28, 2011 2:42 PM PDT

9/11 Didn't Upturn the Constitution, the War on Crime Did
Tue Sep. 13, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

Rikers Island Prisoners Left Behind to Face Irene
Sat Aug. 27, 2011 9:09 AM PDT

Languishing in Solitary, Pelican Bay Inmates Launch Hunger Strike
Fri Jul. 1, 2011 1:00 PM PDT

Doctors Prescribe Cure for "Epidemic of Mass Incarceration"
Thu Jun. 9, 2011 8:46 AM PDT

No Budget Cuts for Federal Prisons
Wed Apr. 13, 2011 1:53 PM PDT

Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs
Thu Feb. 10, 2011 10:17 AM PST

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty
Sat Dec. 25, 2010 11:34 AM PST

Georgia Prisoners’ Strike: “We locked ourselves down.”
Mon Dec. 13, 2010 4:16 PM PST

Cash-Strapped California to Spend $500 Million for New “Condemned Inmate Complex” (Death Row)
Mon Sep. 20, 2010 1:19 PM PDT

Obama's First Military Tribunal Tries Child Soldier Tortured at Bagram and Gitmo
Tue Aug. 10, 2010 11:04 AM PDT

When Summer Is Torture
Tue Jul. 27, 2010 3:13 PM PDT

Clarence Thomas "Outraged" by Treatment of His Nephew
Wed Jul. 14, 2010 2:13 PM PDT

Two Inmates Die in Agony as Prison Staff Stands By
Thu Jul. 8, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

What's Next for Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3?
Tue Jun. 22, 2010 1:00 AM PDT

When Punishing Teens Is Cruel and Unusual
Mon May. 17, 2010 4:49 PM PDT

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape
Sat May. 8, 2010 3:01 PM PDT

Why Do We Treat Marine Mammals Like Suspected Terrorists?
Tue Mar. 16, 2010 10:06 AM PDT

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 "Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement"

Actually, they've been in solitary for 41 years.

Sat Mar. 23, 2013 2:41 AM PDT

Big Labor's Lock 'Em Up Mentality

How otherwise progressive unions stand in the way of a more humane correctional system.

Fri Feb. 22, 2013 4:01 AM PST

Welcome to the New Federal Supermax

The recently acquired "Gitmo North" doesn't jibe with the government's stated goal of reducing solitary confinement.

Mon Feb. 11, 2013 4:02 AM PST

After Years in Solitary, a Mentally Ill Prisoner’s Day in Court

Testing a new legal strategy, Troy Anderson's lawyers will argue that his isolation violates federal disability law.

Mon Apr. 30, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Louisiana Lockdown

Constitutional claim may be the last chance for aging Angola 3 inmates.

Tue Apr. 17, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

"Complete Lawlessness" at Orleans Parish Prison

The notorious New Orleans jail where inmates were abandoned during Katrina faces a new lawsuit over egregious conditions.

Fri Apr. 6, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Supermaxed Out: Adios to an Isolation Facility

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn aims to shutter the notorious Tamms prison—but it ain't a done deal.

Wed Feb. 29, 2012 4:00 AM PST

Obama Budget: Grow Prisons and Keep Gitmo

As broke states try to shed nonviolent inmates, the federal detention machine looks to expand.

Wed Feb. 22, 2012 4:00 AM PST

The Abu Ghraib of Los Angeles?

ACLU lawsuit cites a "sick culture of deputy-on-inmate violence" in LA County jails.

Thu Jan. 19, 2012 1:50 PM PST

14 Years on Death Row. $14 Million in Damages?

In exoneration cases, will the Supreme Court make prosecutors pay?

Wed Oct. 6, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

Cruel and Unusual Health Care

How Mississippi prisoner Jamie Scott's life sentence could turn into a death sentence.

Thu Mar. 25, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

Southern Injustice

Convicted of murder in a deeply flawed trial, Herman Wallace has spent nearly 37 years in solitary confinement. Will new evidence finally lead to his release?

Tue Dec. 29, 2009 5:00 AM PST

Permanent Lockdown

Could the case of the Angola 3 test the use of solitary confinement in American prisons?

Thu Jun. 4, 2009 4:00 AM PDT

Don't Even Think About It

The war against "homegrown terrorism" is on. Enter the thought police.

Wed Jan. 23, 2008 1:00 AM PST

The Chill Pill: Would a Dem White House Take on Big Pharma?

On the trail, candidates fulminate about the drug companies, but money may still speak louder than words.

Thu Dec. 20, 2007 1:00 AM PST

Windfall: How Conservatives, Contractors, and Developers Cashed In on Katrina

The grim pictures from the Superdome had barely faded from your TV screen when the Bush administration and its allies set to work redefining the meaning of the hurricane. A timeline of how disaster became opportunity.

Thu Aug. 30, 2007 12:00 AM PDT

Newark to New Orleans: The Myth of the Black Sniper

Forty years have passed since the Newark riots, but not much has changed when it comes to black suffering and white fear.

Mon Jul. 16, 2007 12:00 AM PDT