Keramet Reiter — Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law

Media

"Top-down rule changes … have never been enough to fix solitary confinement. The guards who staff isolation units must be enlisted."
— Op-Ed: How to fix solitary confinement in American prisons, Los Angeles Times
"These conditions aren't bad just for prisoners. They're bad for everyone."
— The Social Cost of Solitary Confinement , Time Magazine
23/7 excerpted at The American Scholar
"Are reforms sustainable in light of the pervasive and persistent practice of solitary confinement across the United States?"
— Arthur Johnson's Life in Solitary Confinement, Yale Books Unbound
"The abuses that have taken place deep inside the prisons within the prisons of supermaxes suggest that neither laws nor moral values have placed adequate limitations on punishment – in terms of its scale, its duration or its intensity."
— When Prison is Not Enough: The Rise (and Perhaps the Fall) of the Supermax Prison , Prison Legal News
"I opened to page 99 and found one of my favorite quotes from my research into the history and uses of long-term solitary confinement in the United States."
— The Page 99 Test, Campaign for the American Reader
"My current reading list reveals a slight propensity towards doing too many things at once."
— Writers Read, Campaign for the American Reader