The Globalization of Supermax Prisons

by Jeffrey Ian Ross

Book Overview

2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

"Supermax" prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as terrorists and spies and for other inmates who are considered to pose a serious ongoing threat to the wider community, to the security of correctional institutions, or to the safety of other inmates. Prisoners are usually restricted to their cells for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813557402
• ISBN13: 9780813557403
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"