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  • 021712

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  • Published 2006.
  • 2 pages.

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Life in Solitary Confinement

Publication year: 2006 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: This website provides access to an examination of solitary confinement use in U.S. prisons. Entry points are: Overview -- Thousands Spend Years in Isolation; Part 1 -- At Pelican Bay Prison, a Life in Solitary; Part 2 -- As Populations Swell, Prisons Rethink Supermax; Part 3 -- Making It on the Outside; Working the Isolation Unit -- A Prison Officer's Tale; Q&A -- Solitary Confinement and Human Rights; Q&A -- Solitary Confinement and the Law; and Timeline -- Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons.
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