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Author Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham)

Title Total confinement : madness and reason in the maximum security prison / Lorna A. Rhodes.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series California series in public anthropology ; 7
California series in public anthropology ; 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298) and index.
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.
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Subject Solitary confinement -- United States.
Solitary confinement.
United States.
Prisoners -- Mental health -- United States.
Prisoners -- Mental health.
Prisoners.
Imprisonment -- United States.
Imprisonment.
Prisons -- United States.
Prisons.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham). Total confinement. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2004 0520229878 0520240766 (DLC) 2003050138 (OCoLC)52001709
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