List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: The Hole
Chapter 1: A Day in the Hole
Chapter 2: Solitary Confinement in Context
Chapter 3: Ideal types
Part 2: Scholar’s Story
Chapter 4: Recruiting Inmates
Chapter 5: Getting to the hole
Chapter 6: Scholar’s Story
Chapter 7: Racism in Solitary
Chapter 8: The cell assignment
Chapter 9: It’s “culture” not “race’
Part 3: CO Porter and Dr. Emma
Chapter 10: Prison Sitings
Chapter 11: Prison Town--Larrabee
Chapter 12: Dr. Emma and the Professional Staff
Chapter 13: Microtel
Chapter 14 It’s either this or the coal mine
Chapter 15: Sometimes I sleep in my car
Part 4: Fifty’s Story
Chapter 16: Dehumanization
Chapter 17: Language
Chapter 18: Studies with Monkeys
Chapter 19: Choosing the hole
Chapter 20: Hygiene products
Chapter 21: The mirror
Chapter 22: Food
Chapter 23: Time
Chapter 24: Mail
Chapter 25: Extreme violence
Part 5: Marina’s Story
Chapter 26: Welcome to SCI-Women
Chapter 27: The women’s hole
Chapter 28: Meeting the Mass Killer: Solitary confinement is her “home”
Chapter 29: The BMU
Chapter 30: CO Lisa
Chapter 31: Wendi
Chapter 32: Marina
Part 6: CO Travis
Chapter 33: We are Trump’s Forgotten
Chapter 34: Solitary should be “hard” time: this isn’t a daycare!
Chapter 35: Correctional PTSD
Chapter 36: Faking mental illness to get a candy bar
Chapter 37: “Therapy” with Dr. Emma
Chapter 38: Programming
Chapter 39: TVs, Trays and [Flush] Toilets
Chapter 40: The Flipped Script
Chapter 41: The Job of the CO, Work of the CO
Chapter 42: Contact and intimate surveillance
Chapter 43: White racial resentment
Part 7: White Supremacy and the Lies White People Tell Themselves
Chapter 44: The Lie Built on a Foundation of White Supremacy
Chapter 45: Critical Race Theory: The Lie is Confirmed in Solitary Confinement
Chapter 46: Yet Another Lie: To be Black is to be a Criminal
Chapter 47: From Solitary to the Streets
Chapter 48: What about those who “chose” solitary?
Chapter 49: Emancipated Slave and the White Sharecropper
Chapter 50: Dying By Whiteness
Chapter 51: Solitary Confinement: Reducing rather than (Re) Producing White Racial Resentment
Chapter 52: Strangers in their Own Land
Chapter 53: The Lies the COs Tell Themselves
Chapter 54: January 6, 2021---White nationalists storm the US Capitol
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
