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Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison
Total Confinement: Madness and Reason
in the Maximum Security Prison
by Lorna A. Rhodes, University of California Press, 2004 (329 pages, $19.95).
Reviewed by David C. Fathi
Like chain gangs and boot camps before them, "supermax" prisons were a raging fad in the 1990syet another round in the perpetual "tough ...
in the Maximum Security Prison
by Lorna A. Rhodes, University of California Press, 2004 (329 pages, $19.95).
Reviewed by David C. Fathi
Like chain gangs and boot camps before them, "supermax" prisons were a raging fad in the 1990syet another round in the perpetual "tough ...
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