Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee: Keramet Reiter (UC Irvine): Potentials and challenges of reform efforts ...

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Keramet Reiter (UC Irvine): Potentials and challenges of reform efforts ...

Credit Keramet Reiter

This lecture was part of the International Symposium on Solitary Confinement held November 5-6, 2020 and sponsored by The Office of the Provost of Thomas Jefferson University. Keramet Reiter, JD, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a J.D. and Ph.D. in Jurisprudence & Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement (Yale University Press, 2016) and multiple law and social science articles evaluating the history of solitary confinement use, its impacts on individual health and well-being, and the challenges of institutional reform. Recently, she has been the principal investigator on a project, funded by the Langeloth Foundation, evaluating long-term solitary confinement reform in Washington State

Special Thanks to Keramet Reiter for this presentation on solitary confinement.

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