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

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"The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has denounced the use of solitary confinement beyond fifteen days as a form of cruel and degrading treatment that often rises to the level of torture. Yet the United States holds more than eighty thousand people in isolation on any given day. Now sixteen authors...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Casella, Jean (Editor)
Ridgeway, James, 1936- (Editor)
Shourd, Sarah (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Solitary confinement > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
LAW > Civil Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Imprisonment.
Solitary confinement.
United States.
Physical Description:xii, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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