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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Solitary confinement. New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2020] (DLC) 2019030827 (OCoLC)1114271619 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jules Lobel; Peter Scharff Smith |
ISBN: | 9780190947927 0190947926 |
OCLC Number: | 1104926188 |
Description: | x, 379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Two centuries of solitary confinement -- Mind, body, and soul : the harms and experience of solitary confinement -- Prison reform, prison litigation, and human rights. |
Responsibility: | edited by Jules Lobel and Peter Scharff Smith. |
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The authors of this volume argue eloquently and convincingly, from varied disciplines and perspectives, that it is time to end solitary confinement, and they provide a vision of a carceral system devoid of solitary as well as a road map for getting there. Jules Lobel ... was the lead attorney in a historic class action lawsuit, Ashker v. Governor of California [and t]his volume includes chapters by many of the experts who testified in the Ashker litigation... This volume is unprecedented in the comprehensiveness and rigor of its treatment of the evidence of negative effects of solitary confinement, and the safe alternatives to solitary that are proven and available. The writing is engaging and accessible. The impact of this book, like the impact of the Ashkerlitigation, will serve to advance the struggle to end the torture of solitary confinement in the USA and, one hopes, worldwide. * Terry A. Kupers, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books * Read more...

