The Marion Experiment : long-term solitary confinement and the supermax movement /

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"The Marion Experiment combines academic research with personal accounts by prisoners to investigate solitary confinement and supermax prisons. USP Marion became a model for supermax prisons, with many other prison systems--in the U.S. and abroad--copying the special architectural and program i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Richards, Stephen C. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale, Illinois : Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
Series:Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson series in criminology.
Subjects:
Solitary confinement > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Prisons > Law and legislation > United States.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Imprisonment.
Prisons > Law and legislation.
Solitary confinement.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"The Marion Experiment combines academic research with personal accounts by prisoners to investigate solitary confinement and supermax prisons. USP Marion became a model for supermax prisons, with many other prison systems--in the U.S. and abroad--copying the special architectural and program innovations there"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 318 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780809333776
0809333775

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