The Globalization of Supermax Prisons

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vii Contents Foreword: Probing the Meta-Prison, by Loïc Wacquant ix Acknowledgments xv 1 The Globalization of Supermax Prisons: An Introduction 1 Jeffrey Ian Ross 2 The Invention of the American Supermax Prison 10 Jeffrey Ian Ross 3 How Canada Built Its Supermax Prison 25 Jeffrey Ian Ross 4 Supermaxes South of the Border 35 Patrick O’Day and Thomas O’Connor 5 The Growth of the Supermax Option in Britain 49 Angela West Crews 6 Analyzing the Supermax Prisons in the Netherlands: The Dutch Supermax 67 Sandra L. Resodihardjo 7 Supermaximum Prisons in South Africa 80 Fran Buntman and Lukas Muntingh 8 From “Secondary Punishment” to “Supermax”: The Human Costs of High-Security Regimes in Australia 95 David Brown and Bree Carlton 9 The Emergence of the Supermax in New Zealand 111 Greg Newbold 10 The Rise of the Supermax in Brazil 129 José de Jesus Filho Contents viii 11 Guantánamo: America’s Foreign Supermax in the Fight Against Terrorism 145 Jeffrey Ian Ross and Dawn L. Rothe 12 A Globalized Militarized Prison Juggernaut: The Case of Abu Ghraib 160 Dawn L. Rothe 13 Conclusion: Globalization, Innovation, or Neither? 177 Jeffrey Ian Ross Notes 183 References 195 Notes on Contributors 217 ...