Bibliograph

23/7, Pelican Bay Prison and the rise of long-term solitary confinement, Keramet Reiter

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23/7, Pelican Bay Prison and the rise of long-term solitary confinement, Keramet Reiter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-286) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

23/7

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

945719055

Responsibility statement

Keramet Reiter

Sub title

Pelican Bay Prison and the rise of long-term solitary confinement

Summary

Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and they are held entirely at administrators' discretion. Reiter tells the history of one "supermax," California's Pelican Bay State Prison, whose extreme conditions recently sparked a statewide hunger strike by 30,000 prisoners. She describes how Pelican Bay was created without legislative oversight, in fearful response to 1970s radicals; how easily prisoners slip into solitary; and the mental havoc and social costs of years and decades in isolation. --From publisher description

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Twenty three by sevenTwenty-three / sevenPelican Bay Prison and the rise of long-term solitary confinement

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