TAR
“Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many
people alone in tiny cells for 23 hours a day,
sometimes for months or even years at a time?” Mr.
Obama asked in a speech
at a convention of the N.A.A.C.P. in
Philadelphia, where he called for an overhaul of the
criminal justice system. “That is not going to make
us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger. And
if those individuals are ultimately released, how
are they ever going to adapt? It’s not smart.”
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128 Harvard Law
Review, No. 6 (April, 2015)
Law Enforcement's Warrior
Problem
Independent Investigations
Into Uses of Force
Bait, Mask, and Ruse
The Failure of American
Lawyers
__________
The Atlantic (Dec.
11, 2014)
Torture is Who We Are The Atlantic,
Peter Beinart, Dec. 11, 2014
The Graywashing of CIA Torture The Atlantic, Dec. 11, 2014
COLORADO PRISON DIRECTOR SPENDS 20 HOURS IN SOLITARY New York Times, March 16, 2014
THE BOX: TEENS IN SOLITARY - RIKERS ISLAND
GUANTANAMO MEMOIRS
WHEN SOLITUDE IS TORTURE Washington Post, George Will, February 20,
2013
THE CAGING OF AMERICA. Why do we Lock Up So Many?
The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik, January
30, 2012
SUPERMAX CONFINEMENT IN U.S. PRISONS
THE BRUTALITY OF SUPERMAX CONFINE MENT
SUPERMAX PRISONS - WIKIPEDIA
Guantanamo Treatment Better than Supermax RadioVice Online, S. McDonough,
Jan. 7, 2010
ADX Federal Supermax
Prison, Florence, CO
Major U. S. Supermax Prisons
FEDERAL SUPERMAX
(ADX) PRISON
Florence, Colorado
Supermax:
A Clean Version of Hell
(Revisited)
60 Minutes Reports on Supermax Prison,
June 21, 2009
"Supermax" Prison Draws Attention in Gitmo
Debate by Kevin Johnson, USA Today,
June 3, 2009
Tough Enough for Terrorists?
Sentencing
Law & Policy Blog, May 21, 2009
CALIFORNIA - PELICAN BAY
ILLINOIS - MARION, TAMMS
& THOMSON
Transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees
On December
15 , 2009 Barack
Obama ordered the
departments of
Justice and Defense to
arrange Federal ownership of the Thomson
Correctional Center, and prepare for
transfer of Guantanamo detainees.
OHIO STATE PRISON
VIRGINIA - WALLENS RIDGE & RED
ONION
WISCONSIN SECURE FACILITY
( Boscobel)
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT SOURCEBOOK by Sharon Shalev,
October, 2008
Supermax Repor ts
Report on Monitoring Mail of High Risk
Inmates U.S. Dept. of Justice - September, 2006
Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's
Prisons
Report: Confronting
Confinement -
June 6, 2006, 226 pages, PDF
Prisons at Center of Damning U.N. Report
National Public Radio Reports:
Life in Solitary Confinement
(Index to
Special Reports ) June 26-28, 2006: A 3-Part
Series by Laura Sullivan
Part 1:
At Pelican Bay Prison - A life in solitary Part 2:
Prisons Rethink Supermax
Part 3: Making
it on the Outside
Supplementation:
Timeline: Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons
Jamie Fellner: Solitary Confinement & Human Rights
Roger Pilon: Solitary Confinement & the Law
Working the Isolation Unit: A Prison Officer's Tale
May 4, 2006: Michelle Norris and Karen G. Bates
America's Supermax
and A Cell in Supermax Prison
Yahoo Supermax Photo Gallery
10 Notorious U.S. Prisons
SUPERMAX
NEWS & REPORTS
Is it Time to Ban Solitary Confinement? Julia Dahl, The Crime Report, Jan. 18, 2010
Guantanamo Detainees Don't Warrant Supermax TalkLeft (the politics of crime), Dec. 23, 2009
A Fate Worse than Gitmo The Daily Beast, Dec. 23, 2009
Buried Alive American Friends Service Committee-Arizona, May, 2007
Maine State Prison and Supermax Watch current blog, by Deane BrownLife in Solitary
Confinement: 12,775 Days Alone
Arizona Prisons:
A Reporter's Notebook - The Wickenberg SunPart 1 - Feb. 21, 2007 -
Part 2 - Feb. 28, 2007 -
Part 3 - Mar. 7, 2007
Does Separation Equal Suffering?
- St. Petersburg Times,
Dec. 17, 2006
Why is Cruel & Unusual Getting Crueler? - Deepak Chopra,
June 26, 2006
The U.S. Gulag Prison System Z-Net, Steve Lendman,
April 21, 2006
Is the End in Sight for Supermax Forbes, April 18,
2006
Cruel and Unusual, Dying in Supermax Seven Days, January
25, 2006
Comm. on Prison Safety and Abuse
Vince Nathan
Statement, July 2005
Gangs Keep Tight Rein
- NPR, March 12, 2005
Gangs Reach Out
- National Public Radio, March 7, 2005
Recidivism of Washington Supermax Prisoners , U. of Wash,
April 2004
The Solitary Men Boston Globe, April 4, 2004
The Pain of
Prison , The Why Files, Univ. of Wisconsin, April, 2003
A History of Hard Time Legal Affairs, Jan.-Feb.,
2003
Killing Me Every Day
Amy Abugo Ongiri; Encrucijada/Crossroads,
2003
Prisoners Released from Extreme Isolation USA Today, Dec.
2002
Return
of the Madhouse American Prospect Online, February, 2002
America's Most Unwanted
The Guardian Jan. 2002
Out of Time: Max Security and the Dark Trickster
C.O. Speisel, 2002
Long Term Lockdown National Catholic Reporter, Dec. 8, 2000
The Supermax Solution.
Village Voice, May, 1999
Supermax' Prisons Typify U.S. Attitudes ,
Chicago
Tribune, Aug., 1998
Trend
Worries Experts - CNN, Jan. 9, 1998
Prisons, Punishment, and Profiteers ,
by Tony Samara
Brutality
and Torture
- Partnership for Safety and
Justice
ADX Supermax Prison at Night
L ONGITUDINAL
STUDY OF ADMIN. SEG.
THE GRAY BOX: AN INVESTIGATIVE LOOK AT
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Susan Greene, The Dart Society, Spring,
2012
SOLITARY
Sharon Shalev, 126 New Humanist, Jan/Feb, 2011
EXTENDING HOPE INTO "THE HOLE"
Applying Graham v. Florida to Supermax
Prisons
SUPERMAX PRISONS: HELL ON EARTH . . .
Psychology Today, January 11, 2011
THE RESISTABLE RISE AND PREDICTABLE FALL
EXPENSIVE, INEFFECTIVE, (and they drive people mad) London
School of Economics - Report on
Supermax: Sharon Shalev, October 19, 2009
SUPERMAX PRISONS and the trajectory of exception
H ELLHOLE Atul Gawande, New Yorker, Annals of Human Rts, March,
2009
COUNTING CASUALTIES in the war on prisoners Craig
Haney, 48 Univ. of San Francisco Law Review 87, Summer,
2008
AMERICA'S SUPERMAX PRISONS DO TORTURE
Video Interview with Kiilu Nyasha, Angola 3 News, November, 2009
SUPERMAX PRISONS ALREADY HOLD TERRORISTS Washington Post, May 22, 2009
ALREADY
355 TERRORISTS IN AMERICAN PRISONS Fred Kaplan, Slate, May 29, 2009
COLO.
SUPERMAX TOO FULL. . .
Wall Street Journa l
GUANTANAMO:
My Trip to GITMO (Photo Essay)
One year into his presidency, Barack Obama still
hasn't managed to close the controversial U.S.
prison facility at Guantánamo Bay. But its days are
clearly numbered. Here's how I'll always remember
the place.
Escape
from Guantanamo
Beyond
the Law
McClatchy
Newspapers Investigation
June 15-19, 2008
Insanity Inside Guantanamo
Salon, June 10,
2008
Locked Up Alone
Human Rights Watch Report, June 10, 2008
Origins & Need to Control Supermax Prisons
Lockdown | National Geographic Channel Lockdown takes viewers inside
the closed world of three maximum-security US prisons to
observe violent clashes, covert rules and secret codes
of justice.
Sample
Supermax Episodes:1 of 3
2 of 3
3 of 3
From Inside Supermax - 8 Part Series
Questions & Answers with Jacob Ind - July, 2008
What I Learned in Supermax, March 15-20, 2008
Inside Australian Supermax Video
Fair &
Balanced Assessment of Supermax Prisons
Daniel Mears and
Jamie Watson, Justice Quarterly -
June, 2006
Evaluating Effectiveness of Supermax Prisons
Are Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad?
Benefit-Cost Analysis for Supermax
PRISONS AND PLACES blog
Prisons in Small
Towns
POLITICS OF CONTROL & HEALTH IN MAX. SECURITY
NO, WE'RE NOT READY, PRESIDENT OBAMA
STOPMAX:
FIGHT AGAINST SUPERMAXES HEATS UP
SUPERMAX AS A TECHNOLOGY OF PUNISHMENT Lorna Rhodes,
Social Research, June 22 2007
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PODCAST - 2
SUPERMAX PRISONS ARE TORTURE:
Democratic Underground.com ,
Dec. 12-15, 2006
LIFE IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
THE
WORLD'S BIGGEST PRISON SYSTEM
SUPERMAX PRISONS: THEIR RISE . . .
GITMO THROUGH A VIEWFINDER
TORTURE:
AMERICA'S BRUTAL PRISONS
LOCKED DOWN: GANGS IN THE SUPERMAX
HOW WE GOT
THE SECURITY HOUSING UNIT (SHU)
SUPERMAX AUSTRALIA Broadband
Edition
A
Visit to the NSW HRMU Supermax
More Supermax References &
Reports
A Bleak Peek at Hard Time
Control Units - Prisons Within Prisons
A
Critical Look at Supermax Prisons
Polunsky
Unit, Texas - Welcome to Hell
Supermax:
No One Will Hear You Scream
Supermax Prisons: Overview
Survival
in Solitary - (AFS, Nov. 1997)
WATERBOARDING IS ILLEGAL
AMERICAN
TORTURE
THE GUANTANAMO FILES Press TV, February 28,
2008
INTERVIEW WITH "TORTURE & DEMOCRACY" AUTHOR
GUANTANAMO BAY:
REPORT FROM CAMP 6
Toronto Star, Feb. 4, 2007
UIGHERS' DETENTION CONDITIONS CONDEMNED Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2007
OBSIDIAN WINGS BLOG: TORTURE AND DETENTION
The Torture of Jose Padilla, pt. 1 - Hilzoy, Jan. 10, 2007Interrogation, pt. 2 - Jan. 10, 2007A Feature, Not a Bug, pt. 3 - Jan. 15, 2007Slow & Daily Tampering with
. . . the Brain - Jan. 30,
2007
MORE THOUGHTS ON PADILLA
CRUEL AND DEGRADING: ATTACK DOGS Human Rights Watch, Oct. 19, 2006
OUTSOURCING TORTURE
PRESSURE RISING - TORTURE REVISISTED
CONTEMPLATING
TORTURE - Prisoner Solidarity
CHAIN OF COMMAND
TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB Seymour Hersh - The New Yorker - May
10, 2004
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
- RECENT REPORTS
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH WORLD REPORT - 2009
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