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Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement, by Sharon Shalev (Willan Publishing, September 2009). 346 pages, $39.95

Loaded on June 15, 2013 by Julie Etter published in Prison Legal News June, 2013, page 46
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews. Location: United States of America.
Book review by Julie Etter

Without exaggeration, Sharon Shalev's examination of supermax prisons and the dynamics of solitary confinement in the United States illustrates the consequences of bureaucratic dictates on the human soul. While not concealing her own moral judgment as to the practice of solitary confinement, Shalev evenly approaches ...

 

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