TY - BOOK ID - 77861567 TI - Total confinement : madness and reason in the maximum security prison PY - 2004 VL - 7 SN - 1597349615 1282762990 9786612762994 0520937686 9780520937680 1417525576 9781417525577 0520229878 9780520229877 0520240766 9780520240766 9781597349611 PB - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Solitary confinement KW - Prisoners KW - Imprisonment KW - Prisons KW - Convicts KW - Correctional institutions KW - Imprisoned persons KW - Incarcerated persons KW - Prison inmates KW - Inmates of institutions KW - Persons KW - Administrative segregation (Prison discipline) KW - Hole (Prison discipline) KW - Isolation (Prison discipline) KW - Secure housing units (Prison discipline) KW - Security housing units (Prison discipline) KW - SHU (Prison discipline) KW - Special housing units (Prison discipline) KW - Special management units (Prison discipline) KW - Prison discipline KW - Mental health KW - Inmates KW - Emprisonnement cellulaire KW - Prisonniers KW - Emprisonnement KW - Mental health services KW - Services de santé mentale KW - american prison system. KW - american society. KW - anthropology. KW - confinement. KW - crime and punishment. KW - criminal justice. KW - discussion books. KW - ethnography. KW - expose. KW - firsthand account. KW - incarceration. KW - injustice. KW - interviews. KW - isolation. KW - life behind bars. KW - life in prison. KW - maximum security prison. KW - mental health units. KW - mental illness. KW - nonfiction. KW - prison administrators. KW - prison industry. KW - prison stories. KW - prison workers. KW - prisoners. KW - prisons and inmates. KW - punishment. KW - sense of self. KW - social science. KW - sociology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77861567 AB - 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. Her often harrowing, sometimes poignant, exploration of maximum security confinement includes vivid testimony from prisoners and prison workers, describes routines and practices inside prison walls, and takes a hard look at the prison industry. More than an exposé, Total Confinement is a theoretically sophisticated meditation on what incarceration tells us about who we are as a society. Rhodes tackles difficult questions about the extreme conditions of confinement, the treatment of the mentally ill in prisons, and an ever-advancing technology of isolation and surveillance. Using her superb interview skills and powers of observation, she documents how prisoners, workers, and administrators all struggle to retain dignity and a sense of self within maximum security institutions. In settings that place in question the very humanity of those who live and work in them, Rhodes discovers complex interactions-from the violent to the tender-among prisoners and staff. Total Confinement offers an indispensable close-up of the implications of our dependence on prisons to solve long-standing problems of crime and injustice in the United States. ER -