| Description |
xi, 291 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-279) and index. |
| Contents |
Supermax isolation -- A culture of punishment -- Race matters a lot -- The decimation of life skills -- Adding madness to the mix -- Women do not do well in solitary -- Youth in isolation -- The SHU post-release syndrome -- A rehabilitative attitude -- Mental health care in corrections -- The disruptive prisoner -- Beyond supermax isolation. |
| Summary |
"Imagine spending nearly twenty-four hours a day alone, confined to an eight-by-ten-foot windowless cell. This is the reality of approximately one hundred thousand inmates in solitary confinement in the United States today. Terry Allen Kupers, one of the nation’s foremost experts on the mental health effects of solitary confinement, tells the powerful stories of the inmates he has interviewed while investigating prison conditions during the past forty years. Touring supermax security prisons as a forensic psychiatrist, Kupers has met prisoners who have been viciously beaten or raped, subdued with immobilizing gas, or ignored in the face of urgent medical and psychiatric needs. Kupers criticizes the physical and psychological abuse of prisoners and then offers rehabilitative alternatives to supermax isolation. Solitary is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the true damage that solitary confinement inflicts on individuals living in isolation as well as on our society as a whole" --Inside dust jacket. |
| Subject |
Solitary confinement -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Prisoners -- Mental health -- United States.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Kupers, Terry Allen. Solitary. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520965737 (DLC) 2017008047 |
| ISBN |
9780520292239 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0520292235 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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