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This work considers the history of solitary confinement and how it is experienced by the individuals undergoing it. Using Merleau-Ponty's concept of embodied subjectivity, it provides first-hand accounts of the inhumane experience of solitary confinement to provide a better appreciation of the relationship between penal strategy and its effect on human beings.
Solitary confinement. --- Solitary confinement --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Administrative segregation (Prison discipline) --- Hole (Prison discipline) --- Isolation (Prison discipline) --- Secure housing units (Prison discipline) --- Security housing units (Prison discipline) --- SHU (Prison discipline) --- Special housing units (Prison discipline) --- Special management units (Prison discipline) --- Imprisonment --- Prison discipline
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This book examines American solitary confinement – in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time – and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close constitutional scrutiny. While Eighth Amendment precedent has otherwise experienced a generational fixation on the death penalty, this book argues that such scrutiny must be extended to the hidden corners of the US prison system. Despite significant reforms to capital sentencing by the executive and legislative branches, Eastaugh shows how the American prison system as a whole has escaped meaningful judicial oversight. Drawing on a wide range of socio-political contexts in order to breathe meaning into the moral principles underlying the punishments clause, the study includes an extensive review of professional (medico-legal) consensus and comparative transnational human rights standards united against prolonged solitary confinement. Ultimately, Eastaugh argues that this practice is unconstitutional. An informed and empowering text, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of law, punishment, and the criminal justice system.
Solitary confinement --- Imprisonment --- Administrative segregation (Prison discipline) --- Hole (Prison discipline) --- Isolation (Prison discipline) --- Secure housing units (Prison discipline) --- Security housing units (Prison discipline) --- SHU (Prison discipline) --- Special housing units (Prison discipline) --- Special management units (Prison discipline) --- Prison discipline --- Prisons. --- Criminal justice, Administration of. --- Trials. --- Public safety. --- Political Crimes. --- Prison Policy. --- Criminal Justice. --- Juries and Criminal Trials. --- Crime Control and Security. --- State Crimes. --- Safety, Public --- Human services --- State trials --- Court proceedings --- Procedure (Law) --- Administration of criminal justice --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Justice, Administration of --- Crime --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Dungeons --- Gaols --- Penitentiaries --- Correctional institutions --- Prison-industrial complex --- Law and legislation
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