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200 10$aUnconstitutional Solitude $eSolitary Confinement and the US Constitution?s Evolving Standards of Decency /$fby Charlie Eastaugh
205   $a1st ed. 2017.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017.
215   $a1 online resource (XVIII, 233 p.) 
311   $a3-319-61734-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aChapter 1. The Hidden Corner of the Prison -- Chapter 2. An Adjudicative Framework: Morality and the Punishments Clause -- Chapter 3. The Eighth Amendment?s Evolution -- Chapter 4. National Consensus by State Counting -- Chapter 5. Proportionate Penology -- Chapter 6. Transnational Law -- Chapter 7. Professional Consensus.
330   $aThis book examines American solitary confinement ? in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time ? and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close constitutional scrutiny. While Eighth Amendment precedent has otherwise experienced a generational fixation on the death penalty, this book argues that such scrutiny must be extended to the hidden corners of the US prison system. Despite significant reforms to capital sentencing by the executive and legislative branches, Eastaugh shows how the American prison system as a whole has escaped meaningful judicial oversight. Drawing on a wide range of socio-political contexts in order to breathe meaning into the moral principles underlying the punishments clause, the study includes an extensive review of professional (medico-legal) consensus and comparative transnational human rights standards united against prolonged solitary confinement. Ultimately, Eastaugh argues that this practice is unconstitutional. An informed and empowering text, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of law, punishment, and the criminal justice system.
606   $aPrisons
606   $aCriminal justice, Administration of
606   $aTrials
606   $aPublic safety
606   $aPolitical Crimes
606   $aPrison Policy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B9040
606   $aCriminal Justice$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1BB010
606   $aJuries and Criminal Trials$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1BB040
606   $aCrime Control and Security$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1BE000
606   $aState Crimes$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B4010
615  0$aPrisons.
615  0$aCriminal justice, Administration of.
615  0$aTrials.
615  0$aPublic safety.
615  0$aPolitical Crimes.
615 14$aPrison Policy.
615 24$aCriminal Justice.
615 24$aJuries and Criminal Trials.
615 24$aCrime Control and Security.
615 24$aState Crimes.
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