Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives

by Lisa Guenther

Book Overview

Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons--even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death. In this profoundly important and original book, Lisa Guenther examines the death-in-life experience of solitary confinement in America from the early nineteenth century to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816679592
• ISBN13: 9780816679591
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"