Hell is a very small place : voices from solitary confinement / edited by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, and Sarah Shourd ; preface by Sarah Shourd ; introduction by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway ; afterword by Juan E. Méndez.

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has denounced the use of solitary confinement beyond fifteen days as a form of cruel and degrading treatment that often rises to the level of torture. Yet the United States holds more than eighty thousand people in isolation on any given day. Now sixteen authors...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Casella, Jean (Editor), Ridgeway, James, 1936- (Editor), Shourd, Sarah (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • A sentence worse than death / William Blake
  • Living in the SHU / C.F. Villa
  • Innocent in the eyes of the law / Uzair Paracha
  • On the verge of hell / Judith Vazquez
  • Supermax diary / Joseph Dole
  • Writing out of solitude / Shaka Senghor
  • Loneliness is a destroyer of humanity / Jesse Wilson
  • A tale of evolving resistance / Todd Lewis Ashker
  • Dream house / Herman Wallace
  • A nothing would do as well / Thomas Bartlett Whitaker
  • Weak as motherfuckers / Brian Nelson
  • Scarred by solitary / Enceno Macy
  • A fragile shell of who I used to be / Barbra Perez
  • The freshman / Galen Baughman
  • Because I could laugh / Dolores Canales
  • Invisible / Five Mualimm-ak
  • Psychiatric effects of solitary confinement / Stuart Grassian
  • How to create madness in prison / Terry Kupers
  • Solitary confinement and the law / Laura Rovner
  • Torture of a student / Jeanne Theoharis
  • The California SHU and the end of the world / Lisa Guenther
  • Afterword: Exposing torture / Juan E. Méndez.