Return of the madhouse: supermax prisons are becoming the high-tech equivalent of the nineteenth-century snake pit.
American Prospect, The, February, 2002 by Abramsky, Sasha
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LAST SUMMER, SOME 600 INMATES IN THE NOTORIOUS supermaximum-security unit at California's Pelican Bay State Prison stopped eating. They were protesting the conditions in which the state says it must hold its most difficult prisoners: locked up for 23 hours out of every 24 in a barren concrete cell measuring 7 1/2 by 11 feet.
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One wall of these cells is perforated steel; inmates can squint out through the holes, but there's nothing to see outside either. In Pelican Bay's supermax unit, as in most supermax prisons around the country, the cells are arranged in lines radiating out like ...
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