Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives
- ISBN-10
- 0816679592
- ISBN-13
- 9780816679591
- Series
- Solitary Confinement
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 321
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Author
- Lisa Guenther
Description
In this profoundly important and original book, Lisa Guenther examines the death-in-life experience of solitary confinement in America from the early nineteenth century to today's supermax prisons. Documenting how solitary confinement undermines prisoners' sense of identity and their ability to understand the world, Guenther demonstrates the real effects of forcibly isolating a person for weeks, months, or years.
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- 2019
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