Solitary : the inside story of supermax isolation and how we can abolish it / Terry Allen Kupers.

9780520965737 (electronic book)
0520965736 (electronic book)
9780520292239

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

©2017

English

1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : illustrations

HV9471 .K86 2017eb

365/.33

""When I testify in court, I am often asked: 'What is the damage of long-term solitary confinement?' . . . Many prisoners emerge from prison after years in solitary with very serious psychiatric symptoms even though outwardly they may appear emotionally stable. The damage from isolation is dreadfully real."" --Terry Allen Kupers. 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.--Provided by publisher.

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