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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788149503321

Titolo

The Marion Experiment : long-term solitary confinement and the supermax movement / / edited by Stephen C. Richards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, Illinois : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8093-3377-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (621 p.)

Collana

Elmer h johnson & carol holmes johnson series in criminology

Classificazione

SOC004000SOC030000

Disciplina

365/.33

Soggetti

Prisons - Law and legislation - United States

Imprisonment - United States

Solitary confinement - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword: The Phenomenon of USP Marion; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Convict Experience With Solitary Confinement; 1. The Politicization of the Hole in Indiana and Missouri; 2. The Realities of Special Housing Units in the Federal Bureau of Prisons; 3. Going to the Hole in California: Cauldron of Solitude; 4. The Boy Scout in Solitary at USP Lompoc; 5. Long-Term Solitary Segregation in the United States and Canada; Part Two. The Effects of Solitary Confinement; 6. Theorizing "Marionization" and the Supermax Prison Movement

7. Female Prisoners and Solitary Confinement 8. The Scene of the Crime: Children in Solitary Confinement; 9. Colorado Supermax Study: What the Critics Say and the Future Holds; 10. Revisiting the Mental Health Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners in Supermax Units: A Psychological Jurisprudence Perspective; Part Three. International Perspectives on Solitary Confinement; 11. Doing Hard Time in the United Kingdom; 12. Solitary Confinement and Convict Segregation in French Prisons; 13. Israeli Maximum-Security Prisons; Conclusion: Rethinking Prisons in the 21st Century; References

Contributors Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

"The Marion Experiment combines academic research with personal



accounts by prisoners to investigate solitary confinement and supermax prisons. USP Marion became a model for supermax prisons, with many other prison systems--in the U.S. and abroad--copying the special architectural and program innovations there"--