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DESCRIPTION:23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary 
 Confinement\n\nfrom Yale University Press\n\nHow America's prisons turned a 
 "brutal and inhumane" practice into standard procedure\n\nOriginally meant 
 to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has 
 become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in 
 featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and 
 they are held entirely at administrators' discretion. Keramet Reiter tells 
 the history of one "supermax," California's Pelican Bay State Prison, whose 
 extreme conditions recently sparked a statewide hunger strike by 30,000 
 prisoners. This book describes how Pelican Bay was created without 
 legislative oversight, in fearful response to 1970s radicals; how easily 
 prisoners slip into solitary; and the mental havoc and social costs of 
 years and decades in isolation. The product of fifteen years of research in 
 and about prisons, this book provides essential background to a subject now 
 drawing national attention.\n\nKeramet Reiter, an assistant professor in 
 the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and at the School of Law at 
 the University of California, Irvine, has been an advocate at Human Rights 
 Watch and testified about the impacts of solitary confinement before state 
 and federal legislators. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790923.php
SUMMARY:Keramet Reiter
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790923.php
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