NO HUMAN CONTACT by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hot House, Pulitzer Prize finalist Pete Earley takes readers inside the criminal justice system, examining the brutal lives of those in solitary confinement in an eye opening narrative of reprehensible crime, draconian punishment, and seemingly impossible reform in the harshest depths of the countrys most dangerous prisons. In 1983, Thomas Silverstein and Clayton Fountain, both serving life sentences at the U.S, Prison in Marion, Illinois, separately murdered two correction officers on the same day. The Bureau of Prisons condemned both men to the severest punishment that could legally be imposed, one created specifically for them. It was unofficially called no human contact. Each initially spent nine months in a mattresssized cell where the lights burned twentyfour hours a day. They were clothed only in boxer shorts, completely sealed off from the outside world with only their minds to occupy their time. Eventually granted minimal privileges, Fountain turned to religion and endured twentyoneyears before dying alone of natural causes. Silverstein became a skilled artist and lasted thirtysix years, longer than any other American prisoner held in isolation. Amazingly, both men found purpose to their existence while confined in the belly of the beast. Pete Earleythe only journalist to be granted facetoface access with Silversteinexamines profound questions at the heart of our justice system. Were Silverstein and...

Binding: Hardback;304 pages; Publisher: Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.; Classification: BTC; Weight: 612 g; Dimensions: 162 x 238 x 30

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