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When Prison is Not Enough: The Rise (and Perhaps the Fall) of the Supermax Prison

Loaded on Nov. 8, 2016 published in Prison Legal News November, 2016, page 1
Filed under: Prison Reform, Failure to Treat, Statistics/Trends, Collateral consequences of prison, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides. Location: United States of America.

by Keramet Reiter

In 1986, the Security Management Unit opened in Florence, Arizona. It was a new kind of prison designed for long-term, total isolation, for prisoners whom prison officials said simply could not get by in the general prison population: gang members, the extremely violent, some death row prisoners. ...

 

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