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Jul 7, 2021 · Billy Blake, who killed a police officer in 1987, was transferred to the general prison population in 2021 after spending nearly three decades in isolation. His essay on the horrors of solitary confinement went viral and inspired a campaign to end the practice in New York.
Mar 23, 2013 · Billy Blake is a New York prisoner who murdered a sheriff's deputy in 1987 and has been held in solitary confinement ever since. Read his essay, his letters, and an account of a visit to him in Elmira Correctional Facility.
Apr 1, 2021 · Billy Blake, a convicted murderer, has been housed in a small cell on his own for 34 years in prisons in upstate New York. He said inmates regularly throw excrement, bang on their doors or...
Mar 29, 2021 · Prison Writer William Blake, Who Has Lived in Isolation Cells in New York State Since 1987, Awaits His Promised Release from Solitary
Oct 14, 2016 · Billy Blake, far left, grins while chained to two other inmates shortly after he fatally shot one Onondaga County Sheriff's deputy and injured another on Feb. 10, 1987 outside of DeWitt...
Jun 3, 2019 · William “Billy” Blake has spent what may be the longest amount of time in continuous isolation in New York. Despite having no violent infractions in more than 15 years, Blake is now in his 32nd year of solitary confinement.
Billy Blake, a convicted murderer, describes his 25 years of living in solitary confinement, also known as The Box or SHU. He compares his experience to death and expresses his despair and boredom in this essay.
