@article{808844,
      author = {Kupers, Terry Allen,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/808844},
      title = {Solitary : the inside story of supermax isolation and how  we can abolish it /},
      abstract = {""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.},
      recid = {808844},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) :},
}