Gebundenes Buch

Hell Is a Very Small Place

Voices from Solitary Confinement

Herausgeber: Casella, Jean; Shourd, Sarah; Ridgeway, James

Beschreibung

"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"--

Autor

Jean Casella is a co-director of Solitary Watch, a web-based watchdog project, and a Soros Justice Fellow. She is the editor of two previous anthologies and lives in Brooklyn, New York. James Ridgeway (1936-2021) was an investigative journalist for more than fifty years and was the author of seventeen previous books. He was a co-director of Solitary Watch and a Soros Justice Fellow. Sarah Shourd, a journalist and playwright, was held as a political hostage by the Iranian government, including 410 days in solitary, an experience she chronicled in A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran. She lives in Oakland, California.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 146mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9781620971376
• ISBN-10: 1620971372
• Artikelnr.: 42525062