Total confinement : madness and reason in the maximum security prison /

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In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums"--And the mental health units that complement them--Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2004.
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 7.
Subjects:
Solitary confinement > United States.
Prisoners > Mental health > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Prisons > United States.
Prisonniers > Santé mentale > États-Unis.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Prisons > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Imprisonment.
Prisoners > Mental health.
Prisons.
Solitary confinement.
United States.
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