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Alisa
Roth
As the ACLU's Story Finder, Alisa Roth finds and tells stories of people to bring to life the issues behind our litigation and advocacy work. Before coming to the ACLU, Alisa told stories on public radio, most recently for the program Marketplace. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and other publications. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 2000, and a fellow of the International Reporting Project in 2008. She is a graduate of Haverford College.
05/25/2012
Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement: “More broken than when they went in”

By Alisa Roth, ACLU at 10:54am

Joe Giarratano is hardly a typical prisoner: he’s been involved in two Supreme Court cases; he’s been published in the Yale Law Journal; and he’s taught a class on non-violence, all while locked up in some of the toughest prisons in the country.

But like tens of thousands of others, Giarratano has also spent time in solitary confinement.

Giarratano shared his story in a letter, which you can read here. This is how he described his first stint in “The Box,” in 1996:

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