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This is not about mental illness.
(3-20-23) My new book, NO HUMAN CONTACT: Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security and Two Inmates Who Changed the System, will be published in April and beginning today, the popular website, Good Reads, is giving away a 100 copies to those who enter its giveaway.
For the past 16 years, the focus of my blog has been mental illnesses and the problems exposed in my book, CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness. I care deeply about improving our system for those we love.
But I also have written books about American spies, the wrongful conviction of an innocent man, everyday life inside a federal penitentiary, and the government’s witness protection program.
One of my continued interests is conditions in prisons and jails, and how we deal with those incarcerated in them.
No Human Contact takes readers inside a Super Max penitentiary by exploring the lives of two convicted murderers, Thomas Silverstein and Clayton Fountain. Both entered the criminal justice system as teenagers. Both were affiliated with the brutal Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Both committed savage murders inside prisons and in 1983 each separately killed two federal correctional officers. Because there was no federal death penalty at the time, the federal Bureau of Prisons condemned them to the harshest punishment allowed by law. It was dubbed NO HUMAN CONTACT – literally being cut off from all other humans and society.
