Solitary
Subtitle: the inside story of supermax isolation and how we can abolish it
By: Terry Allen Kupers
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780520292239
Subjects: Mental health; Psychological aspects; Prisoners; PSYCHOLOGY / Forensic Psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; Solitary confinement
Description: "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" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Supermax isolation; title: A culture of punishment; title: Race matters a lot; title: The decimation of life skills; title: Adding madness to the mix; title: Women do not do well in solitary; title: Youth in isolation; title: The SHU post-release syndrome; title: A rehabilitative attitude; title: Mental health care in corrections; title: The disruptive prisoner; title: Beyond supermax isolation.