Time-In-Cell: Isolation and Incarceration
What is solitary confinement, and what has been constitutional law's relationship to the practices of holding prisoners in isolation? One answer comes from Wilkinson v. Austin, a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case discussing Ohio's super-maximum security ("supermax") prison, which opened in 1998 to hold more than five hundred people. Writing for the unanimous Court in Wilkinson, Justice Kennedy detailed a painful litany of conditions.
Authors
- Sarah Baumgartel
- Judith Resnik
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-10-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/ca5gj_v1
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.27