Banning the Bing: Why Extreme Solitary Confinement Is Cruel and Far Too Usual Punishment

The United States engages in extreme practices of solitary confinement that maximize isolation and sensory deprivation of prisoners. The length is often indefinite and can stretch for weeks, months, years, or decades. Under these conditions, both healthy prisoners and those with preexisting mental-h...

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Veröffentlicht: 2015
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