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Sharon Shalev

Sharon Shalev is an Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies and a Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and author of Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement, which won the British Society of Criminology’s Book Prize for 2010

Articles by Sharon Shalev

Solitary

30,000 supermax prisoners in the US are denied any human contact. So how does it affect them? Sharon Shalev goes inside

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