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Hell is a very small place : voices from solitary confinement

Title: Hell is a very small place : voices from solitary confinement / edited by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, and Sarah Shourd ; preface by Sarah Shourd ; introduction by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway ; afterword by Juan E. Méndez.
Publication: New York : The New Press, 2016.

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xii, 226 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has denounced the use of solitary confinement beyond fifteen days as a form of cruel and degrading treatment that often rises to the level of torture. Yet the United States holds more than eighty thousand people in isolation on any given day. Now sixteen authors vividly describe the miserable realities of life in solitary. In a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of solitary confinement on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement, and a comprehensive introduction by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella. Sarah Shourd, herself a survivor of more than a year of solitary confinement, writes eloquently in a preface about an experience that changed her life. "--

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Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFD 17-890

ISBN

9781620971376
1620971372

LCCN

2015032805

OCLC

2015032805

Title

Hell is a very small place : voices from solitary confinement / edited by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, and Sarah Shourd ; preface by Sarah Shourd ; introduction by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway ; afterword by Juan E. Méndez.

Publisher

New York : The New Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Casella, Jean, editor.

Ridgeway, James, 1936- editor.

Shourd, Sarah, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-890

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