Supermax Prison: Controlling the Most Dangerous Criminals

By: Rakesh Chandra and Larry Franklin

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Synopsis: The penetrating look at the violence that swept prisons in the 1980’s and 1990’s and the organizational structure mirroring the Mafia that erupted in them. The inmates had to make a choice between joining a gang that offered protection, friendships, financial rewards, access to drugs and other contraband or serving as a lone inmate in a dangerous, even lethal world. The worst in this violent world were sent to a supermax prison. Tamms in Illinois was one of those supermax prisons.This is the story of Tamms."A must-read for anyone interested in the US criminal justice system and its supermax prisons." -- Elizabeth Theresa Klaver, Professor of English at Southern Illinois University"If you work at, administer with, or have anything to say about dangerous or mentally ill inmates, then this book is for you." -- Father Leo J. Hayes, M. Div., M.A., Author of “Evil In Mirror Lake”