Jean Casella is Codirector and Editor-in-Chief of Solitary Watch, a watchdog website founded to help bring the hidden human rights issue of solitary confinement in US prisons out of the shadows and into the light of the public square. Casella’s writing has also appeared in the Nation, Mother Jones, the Guardian, Al Jazeera, and other publications. In 2012, she received a Soros Justice Media Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations for her work on solitary confinement.