Hell Is a Very Small Place - Voices From Solitary Confinement

"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 vividly describe the miserable realities of life in solitary"--

About the author

Jean Casella is a co-director of Solitary Watch, a web-based watchdog project, and a Soros Justice Fellow. She is the editor of two previous anthologies and lives in Brooklyn, New York. James Ridgeway (1936-2021) was an investigative journalist for more than fifty years and was the author of seventeen previous books. He was a co-director of Solitary Watch and a Soros Justice Fellow. Sarah Shourd, a journalist and playwright, was held as a political hostage by the Iranian government, including 410 days in solitary, an experience she chronicled in A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran. She lives in Oakland, California.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Casella, Casella Jean, James Ridgeway, James Casella Ridgeway, Ridgeway James, Sarah Shourd, Shourd Sarah
• Assisted by: Jean Casella (Editor), James Ridgeway (Editor), Sarah Shourd (Editor)
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781620971376
• ISBN: 978-1-62097-137-6
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Rights, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Civil rights & citizenship, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Civics and citizenship