The Spread of Supermax Confinement: A Critical Analysis

• In Event: The Excesses of Incarceration

Abstract

Social changes in the United States have produced an age of fear, in which numerous racial, gender, immigrants and others continue to be margainalized and oppressed. This paper critically examines expanded use of long term supermax confinement in relation to the consequences and sustainability of this practice.

Author

• Shela R. Van Ness, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga