Katie Rose Quandt is a freelance reporter who has worked for various organizations such as Solitary Watch, Prison Policy Initiative, and Open Society Foundations. Katie Rose has also served as a digital producer/reporter for Billmoyers.com and as a Ben Bagdikian Senior Editorial Fellow for Mother Jones. Katie holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Notre Dame and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Biography & Memoir at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Solitary Watch | Shining Light into the Darkest Corners of the U.S. Punishment System
Solitary Watch is a nonprofit national watchdog group that investigates, documents, and disseminates information on the widespread use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. As the only site dedicated solely to solitary confinement across the United States, our mission is to provide the public—as well as practicing attorneys, legal scholars, law enforcement and corrections officers, policymakers, educators, advocates, people in prison, and their families—with the first centralized source of unfolding news, original reporting, firsthand accounts, background research, and advocacy tools on this vital domestic human rights issue, in order to bring about awareness, debate, and change.