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Mears, Daniel P.; Mancini, Christina; Beaver, Kevin M.; Gertz, Marc – Crime & Delinquency, 2013
Despite concerns whether supermaximum security prisons violate human rights or prove effective, these facilities have proliferated in America over the past 25 years. This punishment--aimed at the "worst of the worst" inmates and involving 23-hr-per-day single-cell confinement with few privileges or services--has emerged despite little…
Descriptors: Housing, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Hypothesis Testing