Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement

NOW IN PAPERBACK The "elegant but harrowing" (San Francisco Chronicle) collection of writing from solitary confinement that lifts the veil on this widespread modern—day form of torture

On any given day in America, over 80,000 people are held in solitary confinement—held in utter isolation for twenty—three or twenty—four hours a day, moved there from the general population without any legal process or justification. In a "potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole" (...