Super Max Prisons
Twenty years ago, super-maximum-security prisons were rare in America.
As of 1996, over two-thirds of states had "supermax" facilities that collectively
housed more than 20,000 inmates. Based on the present study, however,
as of 2004, 44 states had supermax prisons. Designed to hold the
most violent and disruptive inmates in single-cell confinement for 23 hours
per day, often for an indefinite period of time, these facilities have been lightning
rods for controversy. Economic considerations are one reason, supermaxes
typically cost two or three times more to build and operate than traditional
maximum security prisons. A perhaps bigger reason lies in the criticism by
some that supermax confinement is unconstitutional and inhumane.
While proponents and opponents of supermax prisons debate such issues,
a fundamental set of questions has gone largely unexamined:
What exactly are the goals of supermax prisons? How, if at all, are these......
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