James Ridgeway

James Ridgeway (1936–2021) was an investigative journalist for more than fifty years and was the author of seventeen previous books. He was a co-director of Solitary Watch and a Soros Justice Fellow and a co-editor, with Jean Casella and Sarah Shourd, of Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement (The New Press).

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Publishers Weekly

Hell is a Very Small Place is Heather Ann Thompson's pick in Publishers Weekly’s "Top Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2016" feature

The Los Angeles Review of Books

Stephen Lurie reviews Hell Is a Very Small Place in The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Counterpunch

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Books by James Ridgeway

Hell Is a Very Small Place
Voices from Solitary Confinement

Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, Sarah Shourd