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  • Wikipedia: Supermax
    Defines control-unit, maximum-security prisons known as Supermax prisons in the United States and other countries. Includes a list of U.S. supermax prison units, maximum security prisons in other countries, and famous supermax inmates.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermax
  • Supermaxed
    Presents issues and information about Super Maximum Security Prisons in the U.S. with an emphasis on Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
    www.supermaxed.com
  • Control Unit Prisons
    History of control unit prisons.
    www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~kastor/ceml_articles/cu_in_us.html
  • What is a Supermax Prison?
    1996 essay discusses supermax prisons, the peope who are put into the maximum security prison units, and the effects of supermaxes on inmates, guards, and the community.
    www.spunk.org/texts/prison/sp001611.txt
  • Digress Magazine: SuperMax Prisons in Appalachia
    Describes a tour of Red Onion State Prison when it opened in 1998.
    www.digressmagazine.com/1supermax.html
  • Four Years in Solitary Confinement
    Details the monotony and sensory deprivation of isolation in the Security Housing Unit at Valley State Prison for Women.
    www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/04/09/SC973...
  • America's most unwanted turn to the law
    Report from the Guardian about high-risk prisoners in U.S. supermax jails seeking legal relief from the 'living tomb'.
    www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,631575,00.html
  • Locked Down: Gangs in the Supermax [pick] [read review]
    In-depth feature from American RadioWorks.
    americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prisongangs/index.html
  • Human Rights Violations in The United States - Red Onion State Prison: Super-Maximum Security Confinement in Virginia
    Argues that treatment of inmates at Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's first super-maximum security facility, raises serious human rights concerns.
    www.hrw.org/reports/1999/redonion
  • Control Unit Prisons [SHU]
    Includes information, history, and organization of control unit prisons.
    www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2398/shucontrolunits.html
  • Cold Storage
    Offers information on Super-Maximum Security Confinement in Indiana.
    www.hrw.org/reports/1997/usind
  • Out of Sight HRW Briefing Paper on Supermaximum Prisons
    Offers human rights perspective on supermax prisons.
    www.hrw.org/reports/2000/supermax
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Supermax Prisons
    PDF file researches the goals, impacts, and costs of super-maximum security prisons in the U.S.
    www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/211971.pdf#search='supermax%20prisons'
 




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