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6x9: a virtual experience of solitary confinement

A special series on the use of solitary confinement in prisons to accompany a Guardian virtual reality simulation of isolation cells.

7 October 2016

  • 6×9: A virtual experience of solitary confinement uses technology to place the viewer inside a prison cell.

    Virtual reality: the Guardian's 6x9 is shown at the White House

    With 6x9 we wanted to effect change – so were thrilled the Guardian’s first VR project was part of South by South Lawn, a White House festival to celebrate ‘art, ideas and action’.

16 May 2016

  • cell

    Guardian's first virtual reality project goes on show in London

    Previously shown at Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, the Guardian’s virtual reality experience 6x9 comes to UK as a physical installation

9 May 2016

  • Tyreik Gilford

    Life in solitary: 'I can't see the sun rise, or the moon at night'

  • Tyreik Gilford, 26, and his sister Tawanna Gilford before he was convicted of a drug charge and sentenced to six years in prison on February 27, 2015. On November 11, 2015, he was placed in solitary confinement, locked away in a 14ft by 9ft concrete cell for 22 hours a day where he remains today.

    Before solitary: a young man's journey in the US prison system – video

5 May 2016

  • 6x9 Portraits series. Johnny Perez. Shot by Tim Knox, March 2016.

    'I ask myself if I'm losing touch with reality' – solitary confinement in The Story podcast

    Johnny Perez looks back on his time in solitary confinement, during which he questioned his sense of reality

4 May 2016

  • 6x9 Portraits series. Five Omar Mualimm-ak. Shot by Tim Knox, March 2016.

    'Imagine nobody recognising that you exist' – The Story podcast

    Five Omar Mualimm-ak was in solitary confinement for five years in one consecutive period. He describes how it affected his mental health

3 May 2016

  • 3 cellstill 14Jan PROOF

    Mentally ill in solitary: 'We're not addressing the problem, we’re making it worse'

  • 6x9 Portraits series. Victor Pate. Shot by Tim Knox, March 2016.

    'The collateral damage of solitary never goes away' – The Story podcast

2 May 2016

  • 6x9 Portraits series. Tyrrell Muhammad. Shot by Tim Knox, March 2016.

    ‘I suffered hallucinations in solitary’ – The Story podcast

    Tyrrell Muhammad talk of his seven years in solitary confinement, where he experienced psychotic episodes and felt like he would never get out
  • The solitary confinement area at the Sante prison, Paris. Across France, an unknown number of terrorism suspects are held in isolation blocks.

    Concern over 'political' use of solitary confinement in European prisons

    Terror threat prompts France, Belgium and the Netherlands to isolate prisoners in attempt to prevent radicalisation
  • 4 cellstill 14Jan PROOF

    Solitary confinement is 'no touch' torture, and it must be abolished

    Chelsea E Manning
    I spent about nine months in an isolated cell behind a one-way mirror. It was cruel, degrading and inhumane

1 May 2016

  • Delores Canales, formerly incarcerated in solitarty confinement poses for a portrait in Fullerton, Orange County, California on 23rd March 2016 Pic © Dan Tuffs. +1 310 774 1780 www.dantuffs.com

    'My son is also in solitary now so it’s a cycle' – The Story podcast

  • Mariposa and the Saint

    I've never been in solitary. But my friend has – and I play her nightly onstage

    Julia Steele Allen

30 April 2016

  • Steven Czifra poses for a portrait in his office in Berkeley, California on Friday, April 1, 2016. 6x9

    'Boredom in solitary confinement is like nothing else' – The Story podcast

    Steven Czifra describes how he coped with solitary confinement by reading and drawing. But eight years in solitary led Steven to become violent

29 April 2016

  • Albert Woodfox, less than 24 hours after his release from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, in New Orleans.

    43 years in solitary: 'There are moments I wish I was back there'

    Albert Woodfox, who was America’s longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner up until his release in February, describes what it feels like to be free
  • 6x9 Portraits series. CHECK ID : Marcell Neil. Shot by Tim Knox, March 2016.

    'I couldn’t understand if it was fake or real' – solitary confinement in The Story podcast

    Marcell Neal talks about his experience of solitary confinement, his feelings of paranoia and the fact that he missed the birth of his daughter
  • Senator Cory Booker

    It's time to end juvenile solitary confinement, once and for all

    Cory Booker
    There are thousands of young prison inmates in the US in isolation. Its effects work against the rehabilitation we supposedly want for them

28 April 2016

  • As part of his reform drive, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit a federal prison

    Obama administration urges states to curb use of solitary confinement

    US president has introduced federal-level reforms, but without getting states to do likewise their impact will be minimal
  • 1.2 cellstill 15Jan PROOF

    Psychologists discuss solitary confinement – The Story podcast

    Craig Haney and Terry Kupers explain why solitary confinement causes psychological damage
  • ‘Solitary shrinks a person with helplessness’

    Solitary confinement is inhumane. I should know – I spent 30 days there

    Chandra Bozelko
    After a month in segregation, I emerged gaunt and scared of everything. I was so thin that inmates thought I’d been away getting some type of chemotherapy
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