Supermax Prisons: Their Rise, Current Practices, and Effect on Inmates

The Prison Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 248-264

  Pizarro, Jesenia ^a   Stenius, Vanja M K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

administrative segregation; prison administration; solitary confinement; supermax

Indexed keywords

EID: 2642549886     PISSN: 00328855     EISSN: 15527522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032885504265080     Document Type: Article

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