For 23 hours a day for months, years, even decades, some 80,000-100,000 adults and youth are held in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, jails and detention centers. On the 23rd of every month, people across the U.S. are joining in actions to call for an end to the torture of solitary, at the recommendation of people incarcerated in Pelican Bay prison who led the momentous hunger strikes in California prisons.
We invite you to join the Together to End Solitary campaign. See Upcoming Events and Submit Your Event for the Calendar.
Need ideas on how to take part? Visit our previous event highlights page and event resources page. Also, download the Together to End Solitary brochure (print two-sided and fold).
The following organizations endorse the Together to End Solitary campaign.
(Organizations listed alphabetically)
- Abolitionist Law Center
- ACLU of Northern California
- ACLU – Pasadena/Foothills
- ACLU of Southern California
- ACLU Stop Solitary Campaign
- American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
- American Friends Service Committee- LA
- Anti-Racist Action-LA
- Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC)
- Black and Pink – San Diego
- Cabrillo College Justice League
- Cafe Intifada
- California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC)
- California Peace and Freedom Party
- California Prison Focus
- Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Children’s Defense Fund of California
- Coalition for Effective Public Safety (CEPS)
- Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action (COPA) Restorative Justice Institutions
- Correctional Association of New York
- Criminal Justice Policy Coalition
- Critical Resistance –LA
- Critical Resistance- Oakland
- Direct Action Monterey Network
- Dramastage Qumran
- Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- FACTS Education Fund
- Fair Chance Project
- Fight for Lifers West, Inc.
- Food Not Bombs
- Freedom Archives
- Free Our Minds, Free Radio Santa Cruz
- Freedom Outreach Ministries
- Global Women’s Strike
- Human Rights Coalition Philly/Pittsburgh
- Human Rights Pen Pals
- Incarcerated Nation Corp.
- Illinois Coalition Against Torture (ICAT)
- Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
- Justice for the Dallas 6 Support Campaign
- Justice for Palestinians, San Jose
- LA Laborfest
- LA No More Jails (No Mas Carceles)
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC)
- Leonard Peltier Support Group Silicon Valley
- MLK Coalition of Greater LA
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)-Santa Cruz County
- National Lawyers Guild – SF Bay Area Chapter
- National Religious Campaign Against Torture
- Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church-Pasadena
- New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC)
- Oakland Alliance (OA)
- Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC- Oakland)
- Payday Men’s Network
- Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community (PARC- Eureka)
- Princeton Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR)
- Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS)
- Progressive Christians Uniting (PCU)
- Project: Pollinate
- Public Works Improvisational Theater
- Queer Strike
- Redwood Curtain CopWatch
- The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
- San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper
- Santa Cruz County Community Coalition to Overcome Racism (SCCCCOR)
- Santa Cruz County Peace and Freedom Party
- Santa Cruz Resistance Against Militarization (SCRAM!)
- Sin Barras
- South Bay Committee Against Political Repression (SBCAPR)
- Student Alliance for Prison Reform (SAPR)
- T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
- United Against Police Terror – San Diego
- Uptown People's Law Center
- US PROStitutes Collective
- The WE Empowerment Center
- Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee
- Women’s Council, California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers
- Women of Color/Global Women’s Strike
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Santa Cruz)
- Youth Justice Coalition