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“Pelican Bay Prison & Long-Term Solitary Confinement” Discussion | City Lights
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City Lights Books | 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA
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Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and they are held entirely at administrators’ discretion.
Keramet Reiter tells the history of one “supermax,” California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, whose extreme conditions recently sparked a statewide hunger strike by 30,000 prisoners.
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Cost: FREE
Categories: Literature
Venue: City Lights Books
Address: 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA