USP Marion: A Few Prisoners Summon the Courage to Speak

Stephen C. Richards
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Stephen C. Richards: Department of Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 54901-8655, USA

Laws, 2015, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: USP Marion is the first supermax federal penitentiary. Marionization refers to the experimental control program used at this prison. The prisoners speaking in this article suffered many years of solitary confinement. This research brief discusses some of what they experienced in their own words. These are the recollections of a few Marion prisoners that have summoned the courage to speak out and share their darkest memories.

Keywords: USP Marion; marionization; supermax; prison ethnography; auto ethnography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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