23/7 : Pelican Bay Prison and the rise of long-term solitary confinement / Keramet Reiter.

Author
Reiter, Keramet [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    Other title(s)
    • 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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