RT Book
T1 Marion Experiment: Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement
T2 Elmer H Johnson & Carol Holmes Johnson Series in Criminology
T2 Elmer H Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson Series in Criminology Ser.
A1 Richards, Stephen C.
LA English
PP Carbondale
PB Southern Illinois University Press
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/836402405
AB Taking readers into the darkness of solitary confinement, this searing collection of convict experiences, academic research, and policy recommendations shines a light on the proliferation of supermax (super-maximum-security) prisons and the detrimental effects of long-term high-security confinement on prisoners and their families.  Stephen C. Richards, an ex-convict who served time in nine federal prisons before earning his PhD in criminology, argues the supermax prison era began in 1983 at USP Marion in southern Illinois, where the first "control units" were built by the Federal Bureau of Pr
OP 621
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN KF9730
SN 9780809333769
K1 Imprisonment ; United States
K1 Prisons ; Law and legislation ; United States
K1 Solitary confinement ; United States
K1 Electronic books
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 USA : Strafvollzug : Hochsicherheitstrakt : Einzelhaft