Women in Solitary offers a new account based around the narratives of four women who experienced detention and torture in South Africa in the late 1960s when th

“An uncommonly powerful memoir about four decades in confinement . . . A profound book about friendship [and] solitary confinement in the United States.” �

An award-winning investigative journalist examines increasing rates of women imprisonment in today's America, in a report that draws on interviews with inmates,

“An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review o