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GUANTANAMO MEMOIRS
Slate, Larry Siems, April 30,
2013
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 CONFINEMENT
New York City Bar Association, September, 2011
SUPERMAX PRISONS - WIKIPEDIA
SOLITARY WATCH: News from a Nation in Lockdown
Solitary Watch: a collaboration among
journalists, scholars, and law
students.
Guantanamo Treatment Better than Supermax
RadioVice Online, S. McDonough,
Jan. 7, 2010
Gitmo Forever
Newsweek (InDirect
Blog), M. Isikoff, Jan. 6, 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
Originally Broadcast October 14, 2007
"Supermax" Prison Draws Attention in Gitmo
Debate
by Kevin Johnson, USA Today,
June 3, 2009
(with hundreds of readers' comments)
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,
President 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 Reports
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
- Rizfi, July 12, 2006
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
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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 Brown
Life in Solitary
Confinement: 12,775 Days Alone
by Brooke Shelby Biggs, AlterNet, April 17, 2007
Arizona Prisons:
A Reporter's Notebook - The Wickenberg Sun
Part 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, 1998
Brutality
and Torture
- Partnership for Safety and
Justice
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ADX Supermax Prison at Night
The author and webmaster
of "Supermaxed.com" is an attorney with
a possibly perverse fascination with Supermax prisons and a strong
opposition to the torture and abuse of
prisoners. He can be reached by e-mail at:
paul@supermaxed.com
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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
J. Allen, 20 William & Mary Bill of Rts. Journal 217,
2011
SUPERMAX PRISONS: HELL ON EARTH . . .
OR NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL
Psychology Today, January 11, 2011
THE RESISTABLE RISE AND PREDICTABLE FALL
OF THE SUPERMAX PRISON
Stephen Eisenman, Monthly
Review, November, 2009
EXPENSIVE, INEFFECTIVE, (and they drive people mad)
London
School of Economics - Report on
Supermax:
controlling risk through solitary confinement
Sharon Shalev, October 19, 2009
SUPERMAX PRISONS and the trajectory of exception
Lorna A. Rhodes, in
New Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice
HELLHOLE
Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, Annals of Human Rights, March 30,
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
OBAMA & CHENEY VIEWS ON SUPERMAX TRANSFERS
CNN, May 22, 2009
ABC NEWS,
Daily Mail (UK)
USA Today
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. . .
Denver
Post, May 22, 2009
Wall Street Journal
GUANTANAMO:
Obama
Administration Plans Showdown with Congress
The Huffington Post,
Jan. 3, 2011
My Trip to GITMO (Photo Essay)
Foreign Policy, Josh Rogin,
Jan. 23, 2010
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
Slate, May
8, 2009
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
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
Compassion in Juvenile
Sentencing - Feb. 25, 26, 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
Daniel Mears, Justice Policy Center -
March, 2006
Are Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad?
Time Magazine, Jan. 25, 2007
Benefit-Cost Analysis for Supermax
Lawrence & Mears, Justice Policy Center - August, 2004
PRISONS AND PLACES blog
Prisons in Small
Towns
NO, WE'RE NOT READY, PRESIDENT OBAMA
Michelle Malkin Blog, May 22, 2009
STOPMAX:
FIGHT AGAINST SUPERMAXES HEATS UP
Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet, August 11, 2008
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
NPR Series, July 26-28, 2006
THE
WORLD'S BIGGEST PRISON SYSTEM
BBC News, Matthew Davis, April 7, 2006
SUPERMAX PRISONS: THEIR RISE . . .
Pizarro-Stenius,
The Prison Journal, June 2004
GITMO THROUGH A VIEWFINDER
National Geographic Explorer
TORTURE:
AMERICA'S BRUTAL PRISONS
United Kingdom; Channel 4 video
LOCKED DOWN: GANGS IN THE SUPERMAX
American RadioWorks documentary
HOW WE GOT
THE SECURITY HOUSING UNIT (SHU)
Terry Kupers, M.D. as told to Trevor
Paglen
SUPERMAX AUSTRALIA
Four Corners - Australian Broadcasting
Corp.
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)
A SOLITARY CONFINEMENT SOURCEBOOK
by Sharon Shalev, London
School of Economics,
Mannheim Centre of Criminology, October, 2008
WATERBOARDING IS ILLEGAL
Washington University Law Review, May 10, 2008
AMERICAN
TORTURE
THE GUANTANAMO FILES
Press TV, February 28,
2008
INTERVIEW WITH "TORTURE & DEMOCRACY" AUTHOR
Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine, Feb. 13, 2008
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, 2007
Interrogation, pt. 2 - Jan. 10, 2007
A Feature, Not a Bug, pt. 3 - Jan. 15, 2007
Slow & Daily Tampering with
. . . the Brain - Jan. 30,
2007
MORE THOUGHTS ON PADILLA
Unfogged, LizardBreath, Dec. 12, 2006
CRUEL AND DEGRADING: ATTACK DOGS
Human Rights Watch, Oct. 19, 2006
OUTSOURCING TORTURE
Massachusetts School of Law, May 6, 2006
PRESSURE RISING - TORTURE REVISISTED
The Portland Phoenix - March 23, 2006
CONTEMPLATING
TORTURE - Prisoner Solidarity
Bill Nichols - Jan. 27, 2006
CHAIN OF COMMAND
Seymour Hersh - The New Yorker - May 17, 2004
TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB
Seymour Hersh - The New Yorker - May
10, 2004
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
- RECENT REPORTS
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH WORLD REPORT - 2009
MORE SUPERMAX:
SUPERMAX LAW & PSYCH - Page 2
SUPERMAX
RESOURCES - Page 3
U.S. Prison Resources and
Information
TERROR &
TORTURE
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