Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Solitary Confinement-from Extreme Isolation to Prison
Reform
Jules Lobel and Peter Scharff Smith
PART ONE: Two Centuries of Solitary Confinement
Chapter 2: Solitary Confinement-Effects and Practices from the
Nineteenth Century until Today
Peter Scharff Smith
Chapter 3: Global Perspectives on Solitary Confinement-Practices
and Reforms Worldwide
Manfred Nowak
Chapter 4: Solitary Confinement Across Borders
Sharon Shalev
Chapter 5: The Rise of Supermax Imprisonment in the United
States
Keramet Reiter
Chapter 6: Not Isolating Isolation
Judith Resnik
Chapter 7: Torture, Solitary Confinement and International Law
Juan E. Mendez
PART TWO: Mind, Body and Soul - The Harms and Experience of
Solitary Confinement
Chapter 8: Solitary Confinement, Loneliness, and Psychological
Harm
Craig Haney
Chapter 9: First Do No Harm: Applying the Harms-to-Benefit Patient
Safety Framework to Solitary Confinement
Brie Williams and Cyrus Ahalt
Chapter 10: Mythbusting Solitary Confinement in Jail
Homer Venters
Chapter 11: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Health
Louise Hawkley
Chapter 12: The Brain in Isolation
A Neuroscientist's Perspective on Solitary Confinement
Huda Akil
Chapter 13: Use of Animals to Study the Neurobiological Effects of
Isolation: Historical and Current Perspectives
Michael J. Zigmond and Richard Jay Smeyne
Chapter 14: Sharing Experiences of Solitary Confinement-Prisoners
and Staff
Robert King, Dolores Canales, Jack Morris, Lieutenant Armondo
Sosa
PART THREE: Prison reform, prison litigation and human rights
Chapter 15: The Management of High Security Prisoners: Alternatives
to Solitary Confinement
Andrew Coyle
Chapter 16: Resisting Supermax: Rediscovering a Humane Approach to
the Management of High Risk Prisoners
Jamie Bennett
Chapter 17: Prisoners Association as an Alternative to Solitary
Confinement-Lessons Learned From a Norwegian High Security
Prison
Are Høidal
Chapter 18: Colorado Ends Prolonged, Indeterminate Solitary
Confinement
Rick Raemisch
Chapter 19: Reflections on North Dakota's Sustained Solitary
Confinement Reform
Leann Bertsch
Chapter 20: Solitary Confinement in Canada
Joseph J. Arvay, and Alison M. Latimer
Chapter 21: "Loneliness is a destroyer of humanity."
Jesse Wilson, Held in Solitary Confinement at United States
Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence,
Colorado
Amy Fettig and David C. Fathi
Chapter 22: Litigation to End Indeterminate Solitary Confinement in
California: The Role of Inter-Disciplinary and Comparative
Experts
Jules Lobel
Jules Lobel is the Bessie Mckee Walthour Endowed Chair Professor of
Law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. He was President of
the Center for Constitutional Rights from 2011-2017, a prominent
constitutional and human rights NGO based in New York City and is
still a cooperating attorney with that organization. He argued
Wilkinson v. Austin in the United States Supreme Court, addressing
the due process rights of Ohio prisoners held in
prolonged solitary confinement in that State's supermax prison. He
is currently lead counsel, on behalf of the Center for
Constitutional Rights in Ashker v. Brown, a class action challenge
to prolonged solitary confinement
in California that has resulted in more than 1500 prisoners being
released from solitary confinement.
Peter Scharff Smith is Professor in the Sociology of Law at the
University of Oslo. He has studied history and social science,
holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen and has also done
research at the University of Cambridge and at the Danish Institute
of Human Rights. Smith has published books and articles in Danish,
English and German on prisons, punishment and human rights,
including works on prison history, prisoner's children and the use
and effects of solitary
confinement in prisons.
"The authors of this volume argue eloquently and convincingly, from
varied disciplines and perspectives, that it is time to end
solitary confinement, and they provide a vision of a carceral
system devoid of solitary as well as a road map for getting there.
Jules Lobel ... was the lead attorney in a historic class action
lawsuit, Ashker v. Governor of California [and t]his volume
includes chapters by many of the experts who testified in the
Ashker
litigation ... This volume is unprecedented in the
comprehensiveness and rigor of its treatment of the evidence of
negative effects of solitary confinement, and the safe alternatives
to solitary that are proven and
available. The writing is engaging and accessible. The impact of
this book, like the impact of the Ashker litigation, will serve to
advance the struggle to end the torture of solitary confinement in
the USA and, one hopes, worldwide." -- Terry A. Kupers, Criminal
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