Download The Marion Experiment: Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement: Elmer H. Johnson & Carol H. Johnson Series in Criminology AudioBook Free
Taking listeners in to the darkness of solitary confinement, this searing assortment of convict experiences, academics research, and plan suggestions shines a light on the proliferation of supermax (super-maximum-security) prisons and the harmful effects of long-term, high-security confinement on prisoners and their families. Stephen C. Richards, an ex-convict who offered amount of time in nine national prisons before making his PhD in criminology, argues the supermax prison era started out in 1983 at USP Marion in southern Illinois, where the first "control systems" were built by the Government Bureau of Prisons. The Marion Test, advised from a convict criminology perspective, offers an release to long-term solitary confinement and supermax prisons, accompanied by some first-person accounts by prisoners - some of whom are scholars - recently or presently incarcerated in high-security facilities. They include some of the roughest prisons in the western world. Scholars also treat the common "marionization" of solitary confinement; its effect on feminine, adolescent, and psychologically ill prisoners and families; and international perspectives on imprisonment. As a daring step toward rethinking supermax prisons, Richards presents the most comprehensive view of this issue to date to improve knowing of the negative areas of long-term solitary confinement and the need to reevaluate how prisoners are housed and cared for. The reserve was publicized by Southern Illinois School Press.
