Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298) and index.
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Controlling troubles -- The choice to be bad -- The asylum of last resort -- Custody and treatment at the divide -- The games run deep -- Struggling it out.
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In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums"--And the mental health units that complement them--Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and treat.