[USA] Supermax Prisons in the Consciousness of Prisoners
The Prison Journal, Vol. 88, No. 1, 169-176 (2008)
http://tpj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/88/1/169
Kenneth E. Hartman
"Prison administrators claim that supermax prisons are essential tools in the management of unruly prisoners and that these facilities act as a deterrent to prisoners contemplating violence. Pelican Bay, known in prison jargon as "Up North," is California's supermax prison. This article states that not only does Pelican Bay not deter, it has created a new standard of toughness, an upper class of prisoners whose survival at Pelican Bay affords them high status."
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