by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway and Sarah Shourd (Editors) - £19.99 The New Press (2016)
hardback
ISBN 13: 9781620971376 | ISBN 10: 1620971372
The first major trade book about the prison sentence “worse than death,” featuring a dozen haunting firsthand accounts of life in solitary
"Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day for months, sometime for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. It’s not going to make us stronger."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 vividly describe the miserable realities of life in solitary.
(President Barack Obama)
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