Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620971372
• ISBN13: 9781620971376
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"