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Slow-Motion Torture.

Authors :
TIETZ, JEFF
Source :
Rolling Stone. 12/6/2012, Issue 1171, p58-66. 8p.
Publication Year :
2012

Abstract

The article looks at the treatment of supermax prisoners, or those in solitary confinement (SC), at U.S. prisons. Topics include research indicating that SC causes serious psychiatric damage to inmates, the lack of a national standard of criteria for determining whether an inmate should be put into SC, and how the application of SC increased in the 1970s with rising crime rates and gang violence in the U.S.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0035791X
Issue :
1171
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Rolling Stone
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
83777725