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Author Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham)

Title Total confinement : madness and reason in the maximum security prison / Lorna A. Rhodes
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages) : illustrations
Series California series in public anthropology ; 7
California series in public anthropology ; 7.
Contents Controlling troubles -- The choice to be bad -- The asylum of last resort -- Custody and treatment at the divide -- The games run deep -- Struggling it out
Summary In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums"--And the mental health units that complement them--Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and treat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Solitary confinement -- United States
Prisoners -- Mental health -- United States
Imprisonment -- United States
Prisons -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Imprisonment
Prisoners -- Mental health
Prisons
Solitary confinement
United States
Form Electronic book
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