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4 Can. J. Hum. Rts. 143 (2015)
Solitary Confinement: The View from Europe

handle is hein.journals/canajo4 and id is 165 raw text is: Solitary Confinement: The View from Europe Sharon Shalev1 This article examines the extent and nature of the use of solitary confinement in Europe. It offers insight into how different jurisdictions manage those they classify as requiring longer term segregation from the wider prison population, and asks ifand how such practices differ to those prevalent in the US supermax prisons - massive isolation prisons where upwards of 25,000 human beings are confined in conditions of extreme isolation and abject deprivation for prolonged stretches oftimefor ill defined reasons and without clear exit routes. The article concludes by suggesting that though things are done on a much smaller scale and though some of the peculiarly extreme way of doing solitary confinement in the American supermax does not appear to have caught up in European prisons, solitary confinement is a common prison practice in Europe. Cet article examine l'6tendue et la nature du recours ? l'isolement cellulaire en Europe. II permet de mieux comprendre lafapon dont diffrents pays gent les prisonniers qui sont classes comme ayant besoin d'Otre isol~s de la population carcfrale gnfrale pour de plus longues pfriodes et pose la question si et comment ces pratiques difftrent de celles en usage dans les prisons amfricaines dites < supermax >> - d'immenses prisons d'isolement oft plus de 25 000 Otres humains sont confines dans des conditions d'isolement extrme et de privation abjecte pendant de longues pfriodes pour des raisons mal d~finies et sans voie de sortie claire. L'article sugge en conclusion que, mcme si les choses sefont en Europe ? une plus petite chelle et mjme si lafapon particuliement extrjme de gfrer l'isolement dans les prisons supermax amfricaines n'est pas encore pr~sente dans les prisons europ~ennes, l'isolement cellulaire est une pratique r~pandue en Europe aussi. Sharon Shalev, LLM, PhD is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. She also manages the informational website: www.solitaryconfinement.org Contact: sharon.shalev@ solitaryconfinement.org

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