Wall City: Survivors of California's Security Housing Unit and other stories

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LIFE

after the

SHU By Kevin D. Sawyer

16 WALL CITY SPRING 2018

Between them, five men spent nearly a century inside a prison within a prison, California’s notorious Security Housing Unit (SHU). Isolated from contact with other inmates, they endured sensory deprivation, an unavoidable consequence of solitary confinement. They didn’t commit any crimes in prison, nor did they violate any

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