No One Escapes From ADX Florence, Alcatraz of the Rockies
No One Escapes From ADX Florence, Alcatraz of the Rockies
- August 12, 2024
- Keramet Reiter, CPIP and social ecology, Howstuffworks, also ran in Yahoo News, August 12, 2024
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Keramet Reiter teaches criminology and law at the University of California Irvine and wrote a book about a Supermax prison in California called "23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement."
"The explicit rationale [for Supermax penitentiaries] is that there are people who are so dangerous they have to be removed from the general prison population, and by removing them, everybody else would be better off," says Reiter. "Theoretically there would be less violence and you could deter gang behavior by locking people away in these really harsh and restrictive conditions."”
For the full story, please visit https://people.howstuffworks.com/adx-florence.htm.
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