Download or read book The Marion Experiment written by Stephen C. Richards and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marion Experiment combines academic research with personal accounts by prisoners to investigate solitary confinement and supermax prisons. USP Marion became a model for supermax prisons, with many other prison systems--in the U.S. and abroad--copying the special architectural and program innovations there.