Research Catalog

Title

Six by ten : stories from solitary / edited by Taylor Pendergrass and Mateo Hoke.

Publication

• Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pendergrass, Taylor
• Hoke, Mateo

Description

282 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

"In thirteen intimate narratives, Six by Ten explores the mental, physical, and spiritual impacts of America's widespread embrace of solitary confinement. Through stories from those subjected to solitary confinement, family members on the outside, and corrections officers, Six by Ten examines the darkest hidden corners of America's mass incarceration culture and illustrates how solitary confinement inflicts lasting consequences on families and communities far beyond prison walls"--

Series Statement

Voice of witness: amplifying unhear voices

Uniform Title

Voice of witness (Chicago, Ill.)

Subjects

• Prisoners
• Solitary confinement
• Prisoners > United States > Anecdotes
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
• Anecdotes
• United States
• Solitary confinement > United States > Anecdotes
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations

Genre/Form

Anecdotes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / by Taylor Pendergrass and Mateo Hoke -- Solitary confinement: A ten-point primer -- Executive editor's note / by Mimi Lok -- "I was the only woman in the prison who was Muslim, the only one who wore a headscarf." / Maryam Henderson-Uloho -- "There were times where I lost track of time. And I'm afraid of that happening again" / Brian Nelson -- "They create this hardened person and then they release him to the community, and that person is doomed for destruction" / Aaron Lewis -- "They pepper-sprayed him through that slot in the door. You see these long shots of pepper spray going in" / Vernesia Gordon -- "An immigration detention, everybody was fighting for their lives but in different ways. You knew you might not ever see your family again" / Mohammed "Mike" Ali -- "I think mercy and justice in proper balance is the key" / Steve Blakeman -- "I started to envision myself hanging from beams and having other suicidal visions" / Shearod McFarland -- "It seemed like they had a rule that every time someone who's transgender goes in they automatically go straight to solitary" / Sonya Calico -- "How safe is that, really, to take somebody from twenty-three-hour-a-day lockdown, and now he's on the street corner in Denver, catching a bus with civilians?" / Travis Trani -- "I have developed zero tolerance for anything. I wasn't like this before" / Tonja Fenton -- "Is it turture? I'd say yes because we crave human contact" / Levi Stuey -- "They're destroying our family" / Heather Chapman -- "I think that many of us reclaimed our humanity. Fighting back will do that" / Michael "Zaharibu" Dorrough -- Appendixes. I. Ten things you can do ; II. Timeline of solitary confinement in the United States ; III. Glossary ; IV. Intimacy and violence in a supermax prison / by Hope Metcalf ; V. Solitary confinement: Where reform is headed / by Amy Fettig ; VI. Five demands of the 2011 California prisoner hunger strike -- Acknowledgments.

Call Number

Sc D 21-455

ISBN

• 1608465314
• 9781608465316

OCLC

1028527858

Title

Six by ten : stories from solitary / edited by Taylor Pendergrass and Mateo Hoke.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Voice of witness: amplifying unhear voices

Voice of witness (Chicago, Ill.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Pendergrass, Taylor, editor.

Hoke, Mateo, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc D 21-455

JFD 19-879