A Conversation with Keramet Reiter on Solitary Confinement

Monday, November 14, 2016 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM EST
Johnson Center, Meeting Room E, #334

Dr. Keramet Reiter will discuss her research on solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and her book "23/7:  Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-term Solitary Confinement" on Monday, November 14 from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Johnson Center Meeting Room E.  Dr. Reiter is an Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, and earned her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley.  She will discuss the history of solitary confinement and how it has evolved to require prisoners to spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells with no visitors or human contact for years on end.  Dr. Reiter will describe California's Pelican Bay Prison, the original "supermax" facility, where extreme conditions sparked statewide hunger strikes, and highlight the arbitrary manner in which prisoners are chosen for solitary confinement, held for years, and routinely released directly onto the streets.   Please join the Department and ACE! for this special talk; RSVP through the link on this page.