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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.
- Format:
- Book
- 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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