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Hell is a very small place : voices from solitary confinement / edited by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, and Sarah Shourd ; preface by Sarah Shourd ; introduction by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway ; afterword by Juan E. Méndez.

Van Pelt Library HV9471 .H45 2017
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Casella, Jean, editor, writer of introduction.
Ridgeway, James, 1936-2021, editor, writer of introduction.
Shourd, Sarah, editor, writer of preface.
Méndez, Juan E., writer of afterword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Solitary confinement--United States.
Solitary confinement.
Imprisonment--United States.
Imprisonment.
United States.
Physical Description:
xii, 226 pages ; 21 cm
Edition:
Paperback edition.
Distribution:
[Jackson, Tennessee] : Perseus Distribution.
Other Title:
Voices from solitary confinement
Place of Publication:
New York : The New Press, 2017.
Summary:
First hand accounts, supplemented by the writing of noted experts, explore the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement.
Contents:
Preface: A human forever / by Sarah Shourd
Introduction / by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway.
Part one. Voices from solitary confinement, Enduring. A sentence worse than death / William Blake
Living in the SHU / C.F. Villa
Innocent in the eyes of the law / Uzair Paracha
On the verge of hell / Judith Vazquez
Supermax diary / Joseph Dole
Resisting. Writing out of solitude / Shaka Senghor
Loneliness is a destroyer of humanity / Jesse Wilson
A tale of evolving resistance / Todd Lewis Ashker
Dream house / Herman Wallace
A nothing would do as well / Thomas Bartlett Whitaker
Surviving. Weak as motherfuckers / Brian Nelson
Scarred by solitary / Enceno Macy
A fragile shell of who I used to be / Barbra Perez
The freshman / Galen Baughman
Because I could laugh / Dolores Canales
Invisible / Five Mualimm-ak.
Part two. Perspectives on solitary confinement. Psychiatric effects of solitary confinement / Stuart Grassian
How to create madness in prison / Terry Kupers
Solitary confinement and the law / Laura Rovner
Torture of a student / Jeanne Theoharis
The California SHU and the end of the world / Lisa Guenther
Afterword: Exposing torture / by Juan E. Méndez.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
1620973510
9781620973516
OCLC:
975132858

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