"It's a Crime in Itself": Bonnie Kerness
Channel: SolitaryWatch
Date: 2011-07-23

Bonnie Kerness's wealth of hands-on involvement with prisoners held in solitary confinement has inspired and informed so much of the movement against prison isolation. As she describes it, she comes out of the civil rights movement, and "since 1975, I have been a human rights advocate on behalf of prisoners throughout the country. Currently, I coordinate the Prison Watch Project for the American Friends Service Committee  (AFSC)." Kerness works out of the AFSC office in Newark, and on a June day this year, she shared her own analysis before introducing us to two former prisoners whom she counsels.