Stop Solitary - Reports and Studies
Inmate Mental Health, Solitary Confinement, and Cruel and Unusual Punishment: An Ethical and Justice Policy Inquiry
By Heather Bersot, M.S. and Bruce Arrigo, Ph.D.
Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology
Special Edition Vol 1, Nov, 2010: pp. 1-82
Impact of a Mental Health Training Course for Correctional Officers on a Special Housing Unit
By George F. Parker, M.D.
Psychiatric Services, Vol. 60, No. 5, May 2009
Solitary Confinement and Mental Illness in U.S. Prisons: A Challenge for Medical Ethics
By Jeffrey L. Metzner, M.D. and Jamie Fellner, Esq.
The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2010
The Worst Scars Are in the Mind: Psychological Torture
By Hernan Reyes, M.D.
International Review of the Red Cross
Volume 89 Number 867 September 2007
Strategic Segregation in the Modern Prison
By Sharon Dolovich
American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 48:1
2011
The Colorado Study vs. the Reality of Supermax Confinement
by Stuart Grassian, M.D.,J.D. and Terry Kupers M.D., M.S.P.
Psychological Effects of Administrative Segregation: The Colorado Study
by Jeffrey L. Metzner, M.D. and Maureen L. O'Keefe. M.A.
from the Correctional Mental Health Report
Vol. 13, No. 1; May/June 2011
Treating Those Excluded from the SHU
By Terry Kupers, M.D., M.S.P.
With lock-down simpliciter ruled out, what should prisons do with the stream of "disturbed, disruptive" inmates entering their front doors? Courts are much better at telling folks what not to do; it's the orders to do that often encounter that ubiquitous sneer: They are micromanaging.
Dr. Kupers here provides a blueprint for complying with legal mandates and also succeeding. Compliance and success are not umbilically tied. This is a very important and easily digested article.
What to do With the Survivors?
Coping with the long-term effects of isolated confinement
By Terry Kupers
the Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, Vol. 35 No. 8, August 2008
The Gang Crackdown in Massachusetts Prisons
By Phillip Kassel
New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement
Winter, 1998