23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement 9780300211467, 0300211465

23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement 9780300224559

How America’s prisons turned a “brutal and inhumane” practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and

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Pain of Confinement: Prison Diaries

Scotland had a brutal prison system in the 1970s – and Jimmy Boyle spent fifteen years locked up. Born in 1944, Boyle g

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Prisoners of Isolation: Solitary Confinement in Canada 9781487599898

What is it really like in 'the hole'? On what basis do prison officials employ the most drastic of carceral pu

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Solitary Confinement: Effects, Practices, and Pathways Towards Reform 9780190947927, 0190947926

"The use of solitary confinement in prisons became common with the rise of the modern penitentiary during the first

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Solitary Confinement: Lived Experiences and Ethical Implications 9781447337546

Why is solitary confinement used in today’s world? Does it help the rehabilitation of offenders? And how is policy affec

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Pelican Bay: Guard, McNamara's story 9781489538635, 1489538631

Behind the walls of California's Pelican Bay State Prison an 18 year veteran gives you the stories behind the headl

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The Marion Experiment : Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement [1 ed.] 9780809333776, 9780809333769

Taking readers into the darkness of solitary confinement, this searing collection of convict experiences, academic resea

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Prison Terms: Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism 9781442678750

An analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, covering the last years of Fascism

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The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage 9780520938557

China is the only major world power to have entered the twenty-first century with a thriving prison camp network—a frigh

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Cultures of Confinement : A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America 9780801446306

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