Ending Isolation review – a takedown of solitary confinement by incarcerated co-authors

A corrections officer removes handcuffs from an incarcerated person through a small opening in a secure housing unit in Represa, California, in 2014. Photograph: Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Terry Kupers can’t sleep. The veteran psychiatrist, author and solitary confinement expert, 81 and still working on multiple projects, is particularly troubled by the brutal spate of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids rocking communities around the US.

“My father came from Russia, so I’m an immigrant’s son,” he said. “I can’t live with these raids. I need to do something about it.”