(H/B) HELL IS A VERY SMALL PLACE

Παρουσίαση

On any given day in America, more than 80,000 people are held in solitary confinement - held in utter isolation for twenty-three or twenty-four hours a day, moved there from the general population without any legal process or justification. In a "potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole" (Kirkus Reviews), Hell Is a Very Small Place offers rare accounts from the people who are now or have been in solitary confinement. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, "The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read."
These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement, and a comprehensive introduction by Solitary Watch co-founders James Ridgeway and Jean Casella. Sarah Shourd, herself a survivor of more than a year of solitary confinement, writes eloquently in a preface about an experience that changed her life.
Edited by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, and Sarah Shourd. (From the publisher)

"Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day for months, sometime for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. It's not going to make us stronger." - President Barack Obama

Περιεχόμενα

Preface: "A Human Forever" by Sarah Shourd
Introduction by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway
VOICES FROM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Enduring
- William Blake, "A Sentence Worse than Death"
- C.F. Villa, "Living in the SHU"
- Uzair Paracha, "Innocent in the Eyes of the Law"
- Judith Vazquez, "On the Verge of Hell"
- Joseph Dole, "Supermax Diary"
Resisting
- Shaka Senghor," Writing Out of Solitude"
- Jesse Wilson, "Loneliness Is a Destroyer of Humanity"
- Todd Lewis Ashker, "A Tale of Evolving Resistance"
- Herman Wallace, "Dream House"
- Thomas BartlettWhitaker, "A Nothing Would Do as Well"
Surviving
- Brian Nelson, "Weak as Motherfuckers"
- Enceno Macy, "Scarred by Solitary"
- Barbra Perez, "A Fragile Shell of Who I Used to Be"
- Galen Baughman, "The Freshman"
- Dolores Canales, "Because I Could Laugh"
- Five Mualimm-ak, "Invisible"
PERSPECTIVES ON SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
- Stuart Grassian, "Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement"
- Terry Kupers, "How to Create Madness in Prison"
- Laura Rovner, "Solitary Confinement and the Law"
- Jeanne Theoharis, "Torture of a Student"
- Lisa Guenther, "The California SHU and the End of the World"
- Afterword: "Exposing Torture" by Juan E. Mendez
Acknowledgments