Hell is a very small place : voices from solitary confinement /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Casella, Jean (Editor ), Ridgeway, James, 1936- (Editor ), Shourd, Sarah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : The New Press, 2016.
Temas:
Solitary confinement > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
LAW > Civil Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Imprisonment
Solitary confinement
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A sentence worse than death / William Blake
  • Living in the SHU / C.F. Villa
  • Innocent in the eyes of the law / Uzair Paracha
  • On the verge of hell / Judith Vazquez
  • Supermax diary / Joseph Dole
  • Writing out of solitude / Shaka Senghor
  • Loneliness is a destroyer of humanity / Jesse Wilson
  • A tale of evolving resistance / Todd Lewis Ashker
  • Dream house / Herman Wallace
  • A nothing would do as well / Thomas Bartlett Whitaker
  • Weak as motherfuckers / Brian Nelson
  • Scarred by solitary / Enceno Macy
  • A fragile shell of who I used to be / Barbra Perez
  • The freshman / Galen Baughman
  • Because I could laugh / Dolores Canales
  • Invisible / Five Mualimm-ak
  • Psychiatric effects of solitary confinement / Stuart Grassian
  • How to create madness in prison / Terry Kupers
  • Solitary confinement and the law / Laura Rovner
  • Torture of a student / Jeanne Theoharis
  • The California SHU and the end of the world / Lisa Guenther
  • Afterword: Exposing torture / Juan E. Méndez.

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