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23/7 : Pelican Bay Prison and the rise of long-term solitary confinement / Keramet Reiter.
Author
Reiter, Keramet
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English
Published/Created
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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HV8728 .R45 2016
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Solitary confinement
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United States
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Prisons
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California
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Pelican Bay State Prison (Calif.)
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Summary note
"Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and they are held entirely at administrators' discretion. Keramet Reiter tells the history of one “supermax,” California's Pelican Bay State Prison, whose extreme conditions recently sparked a statewide hunger strike by 30,000 prisoners. This book describes how Pelican Bay was created without legislative oversight, in fearful response to 1970s radicals; how easily prisoners slip into solitary; and the mental havoc and social costs of years and decades in isolation. The product of fifteen years of research in and about prisons, this book provides essential background to a subject now drawing national attention,"--Baker & Taylor.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-286) and index.
Contents
Introduction: When prison is not enough
A supermax life
The most dangerous prisoner
The most dangerous policies
Constructing the supermax, one rule at a time
Skeleton bay
Snitching or dying
"You can't even imagine there's people"
Another way out
Afterword.
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Twenty three seven
Pelican Bay Prison and the rise of long-term solitary confinement
ISBN
9780300211467
0300211465
9780300240191 (paperback)
0300240198 (paperback)
LCCN
2016939153
OCLC
945719055
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