Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement by Sharon Shalev

Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement

Sharon Shalev

271 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

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This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s.Drawing on unique access to two Supermax prisons an...

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