Solitary confinement : lived experiences and ethical implications / David Polizzi.
"This book is the first to consider the history of solitary confinement and how it is experienced by the individuals undergoing it. Using Merleau-Ponty's concept of embodied subjectivity, it provides first-hand accounts of the inhumane experience of solitary confinement to provide a better...
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Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL, USA :
Policy Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Policy Press shorts. Research.
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Table of Contents:
- The experience of solitary confinement: some beginning reflections
- A very brief history of solitary confinement and the supermax penitentiary
- The developmental history of solitary and supermax confinement: toward a phenomenology of the state of exception
- The Supreme Court, solitary confinement, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment
- From the other side of the door: the lived experience of solitary confinement
- Some closing reflections.