"Tweaking Armageddon": The Potential and Limits of Conditions of Confinement Campaigns

The article discusses the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. prison system, focusing on hunger strike campaigns in 2011 and 2013 in California, in response to the use of isolation units, and denial of basic physical and mental health care. Topics include information on the historic Eastern Stat...

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1. VerfasserIn: Herzing, Rachel (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2014
In: Social justice
Jahr: 2014, Band: 41, Heft: 3, Seiten: 190-195
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Ethics
Prison conditions
Prisoners' health
Mental health of prisoners services
Supermax units (Prisons)
Prison discipline
Prisons
Hunger strikes
solitary confinement
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Zusammenfassung:The article discusses the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. prison system, focusing on hunger strike campaigns in 2011 and 2013 in California, in response to the use of isolation units, and denial of basic physical and mental health care. Topics include information on the historic Eastern State Penitentiary; the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of the Pelican Bay State Prison in California and supermax prisons; and an assessment of the social impact of the strikes.
ISSN:2327-641X