Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It
Author:   Terry A. Kupers
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520292239


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   05 September 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Terry A. Kupers
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520292239


ISBN 10:   0520292235
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   05 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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A must-read for those running our prisons and for policymakers in a position to reform them. --Kirkus Reviews Terry Kupers' Solitary represents both a robust intellectual contribution to analyses of modern solitary confinement use and a powerful piece of advocacy advocating for abolition of the practice - a rare feat in an academic work. --Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books


A must-read for those running our prisons and for policymakers in a position to reform them. * Kirkus Reviews *


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Terry Allen Kupers is an award-winning psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus at The Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology. As one of the nation's foremost experts on the mental health effects of solitary confinement, he has testified in over two dozen class action lawsuits about jail and prison conditions, the quality of mental health care ""inside"" and the effects of sexual abuse behind bars. He is a frequent consultant to the ACLU's National Prison Project and Human Rights Watch and the author of Prison Madness.

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