Dear Friends,

NRCAT’s media series, Humans Out of Solitary, includes short 3–5-minute interviews with 30 survivors of solitary confinement. The project earned significant coverage this year when Joseph de la Luz’s interview from the series was highlighted by host John Oliver on HBO’s Last Week Tonight, receiving 4 million views. This powerful NRCAT media campaign is challenging dehumanizing narratives in the media and politics about the people who end up incarcerated in solitary confinement. 

I am writing to ask you to donate today to NRCAT’s year-end matching gift campaign, Rising Together for Human Rights. Your financial contribution, which will be doubled thanks to our generous donors, will enable NRCAT to continue to release interviews and promote this groundbreaking multimedia project. 

Each filmed interview presents you with a powerful opportunity to bring the voice of a torture survivor into interfaith advocacy, religious and community events, and even family gatherings. We continue to be moved by reports from our NRCAT member organizations who are utilizing these short interviews to help build the national movement to end solitary.

I invite you to donate to NRCAT today. Thanks to our generous donors, your donation of $25 becomes $50, $50 becomes $100, and $100 becomes $200.

We are grateful for your unwavering support. 

Rev. Ron Stief
Executive Director