23/7 : Pelican Bay prison and the rise of long-term solitary confinement / Keramet Reiter.
2016
HV8728 .R45 2016eb
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Title
23/7 : Pelican Bay prison and the rise of long-term solitary confinement / Keramet Reiter.
Author
ISBN
9780300224559 (electronic bk.)
0300224559 (electronic bk.)
0300211465
9780300211467
0300224559 (electronic bk.)
0300211465
9780300211467
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 302 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
HV8728 .R45 2016eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)959713076
Summary
"Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and they are held entirely at administrators' discretion. Keramet Reiter tells the history of one "supermax," California's Pelican Bay State Prison, whose extreme conditions recently sparked a statewide hunger strike by 30,000 prisoners. This book describes how Pelican Bay was created without legislative oversight, in fearful response to 1970s radicals; how easily prisoners slip into solitary; and the mental havoc and social costs of years and decades in isolation. The product of fifteen years of research in and about prisons, this book provides essential background to a subject now drawing national attention, "--Baker & Taylor
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-286) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: When Prison Is Not Enough; 1 A Supermax Life; 2 The Most Dangerous Prisoner; 3 The Most Dangerous Policies; 4 Constructing the Supermax, One Rule at a Time; 5 Skeleton Bay; 6 Snitching or Dying; 7 "You Can't Even Imagine There's People"; 8 Another Way Out; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Source of Description
Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 7, 2016).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Reiter, Keramet. 23/7. [Place of publication not identified] : Yale University Press, 2016
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