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During a fall press conference at a West Loop law office, Anthony Gay haltingly spoke to reporters, wiping away tears as he talked. “I spent 22 years in solitary confinement in Illinois prisons,” Gay said at the offices of Loevy & Loevy. “I was trapped in a cell smaller than the size of a. Locked in solitary confinement for decades, mentally ill Illinois prisoner Anthony Gay engaged in severe and shocking self-mutilation. Stabbing a razor blade into his eye.
Rock Island Man Sentenced to 84 Months in Prison for Felon in
Anthony Gay is also known to be an advocate against solitary confinement. News 8 reported in March that his time in prison began in after he stole a dollar bill and a hat and got in a fight. Rather than provide obviously needed psychiatric care, the state pursued criminal charges against him, which extended his prison sentence for years, worsened his condition and violated his constitutional rights. He later violated probation by driving a car without a license and was sent to IDOC to begin serving a prison sentence. FREE ANTHONY GAY!
While held in solitary by the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) for nearly two decades, Anthony Gay’s severe mental illness worsened, and the extreme isolation without any significant treatment of his mental illness triggered horrific self-mutilation and a lengthy prison stay that amounted to torture. Anthony Gay went to prison in Illinois in for stealing a dollar bill and a hat. Behavior problems added to his sentence, and by the time he was released in August, he had served 24 years in prison — 22 of which were spent in solitary confinement inside a cell "smaller than the size of a parking space," according to Gay. 
After His Death, Family of Man Who Spent 22 Years in Solitary
A Free Anthony Gay – Dismantle Solitary Confinement account was established by Dod McColgan, co-Chair of Chicago Against Racist and Political Repression. As of March 13, , $4, had been raised toward its $25, goal, to hire an attorney to represent Gay on appeal. After spending 22 years in solitary confinement , Anthony Gay is trying to make sure no other prisoner in Illinois has to experience the same level of trauma that he went through. Gay is the face of the state's Anthony Gay Isolated Confinement Act, a bill developed over the last 10 years that would limit solitary confinement to no more than 10 days per six-month period.
Gay v. State of Illinois
Anthony Gay was sentenced to seven years in prison on a parole violation. He ended up with 97 years added to his sentence. How did that happen?. Get our latest investigations in your inbox every week. WBEZ reporter Shannon Heffernan brings us the story of Anthony Gay, who was sentenced to seven years in prison on a parole violation but ended up with 97 years added to his sentence. “I Was Scheduled to Die in Solitary
Former prisoner on mission to change solitary confinement ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with Anthony Gay, who spent 22 years in solitary confinement, and who’s now pushing to change the practice. . 
22 Years In Solitary Confinement
ROCK ISLAND, IL – Anthony Tony Gay, 49, of the block of 14th Street, Rock Island, was sentenced on May 24, , to 84 months in the Bureau of Prisons, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Felon in Possession of Ammunition. .
Missouri prisoner fights for solitary confinement reform
When Anthony Gay spent his first weeks at a federal prison in Missouri earlier this year in solitary confinement, it felt like the walls were closing in. “Just being trapped in a cell, from a. .