Haney (2008) observes that the structural mistreatment of prisoners identified by this type of confinement, ... When Haney (2008) observes that “The potential for significant abuse inheres in the very structure of a prison (p.
Drawing on the testimony of prisoners and the work of philosophers and social activists from Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Frantz Fanon and Angela Davis, the author defines solitary confinement as a kind of social death.
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.
In this volume neuroscientists, high-level prison officials, social and political scientists, medical doctors, lawyers, and former prisoners and their families from different countries will address the effects and practices of prolonged ...
Does it help the rehabilitation of offenders? And how is policy affected by justification for the use of it? This book is the first to consider the history of solitary confinement and how it is experienced by the individuals undergoing it.
Solitary Confinement (My Walls Are Talking) is a thought provoking look inside the mind of former inmate #1001732 Damon Smith while he served time in solitary confinement at the Missouri State Penitentiary.