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The Marion Experiment - Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement (Paperback)
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The Marion Experiment - Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement (Paperback)
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Taking readers into the darkness of solitary confinement, this
searing collection of convict experiences, academic research, and
policy recommendations shines a light on the proliferation of
supermax prisons and the detrimental effects of long-term
high-security confinement on prisoners and their families. Stephen
C. Richards, an ex-convict who served time in nine federal prisons
before earning his PhD in criminology, argues the supermax prison
era began in 1983 at United States Penitentiary (USP) Marion in
southern Illinois, where the first "control units" were built by
the Federal Bureau of Prisons." The Marion Experiment, "written
from a Convict Criminology Perspective," "offers an introduction to
long-term solitary confinement and supermax prisons, followed by a
series of first-person accounts by prisoners--some of whom are
scholars--previously or currently incarcerated in high-security
facilities, including some of the roughest prisons in the western
world. Scholars also address the widespread "Marionization" of
solitary confinement, its impact on female, adolescent, and
mentally ill prisoners and families, and international perspectives
on imprisonment. As a bold step toward rethinking supermax prisons,
Richards presents the most comprehensive view of the topic to date
to raise awareness of the negative aspects of long-term solitary
confinement and the need to reevaluate how prisoners are housed and
treated.
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