A review by fkshg8465
No Human Contact: Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and Two Inmates Who Changed the System by Pete Earley

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5.0

Certainly I believe there Justice been a lot of politics, hate, fear, and assumptions that led to Thomas Silverstein and Clay Fountain having lived the bulk of their lives in complete isolation under the most draconian conditions. The author doesn’t downplay the gruesome crimes these men committed or the damage that the affected families suffered. Nonetheless, he was able to humanize these men and invites his readers to look at them with compassion. And the shocking lives these men were living from the time they were little and very innocent children to and through the times of their imprisonment helps us understand how they became why they became. He avoids all the politics and systemic failures of the prison and “justice” systems (my quotes only) and tells several stories throughout the book to sell a compelling necessity for prison reform. Prison seems to animalize both the jailed and the jailers.
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