In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums"-and the mental health units that ...complement them-Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and treat. Her often harrowing, sometimes poignant, exploration of maximum security confinement includes vivid testimony from prisoners and prison workers, describes routines and practices inside prison walls, and takes a hard look at the prison industry. More than an exposé,Total Confinementis a theoretically sophisticated meditation on what incarceration tells us about who we are as a society. Rhodes tackles difficult questions about the extreme conditions of confinement, the treatment of the mentally ill in prisons, and an ever-advancing technology of isolation and surveillance. Using her superb interview skills and powers of observation, she documents how prisoners, workers, and administrators all struggle to retain dignity and a sense of self within maximum security institutions. In settings that place in question the very humanity of those who live and work in them, Rhodes discovers complex interactions-from the violent to the tender-among prisoners and staff.Total Confinementoffers an indispensable close-up of the implications of our dependence on prisons to solve long-standing problems of crime and injustice in the United States.
The Multicultural Prison presents a unique sociological analysis of the daily negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed world of the male prison. The political economy of racialized ...incarceration together with penal expansion has seen the disproportionate incarceration of diverse British national, foreign and migrant populations, brought into close proximity within the confines of the prison. The impact of broad social changes - globalised migration, the deepening of North-South economic inequalities, and the assertion of minority groups' claims for social and political recognition and equality — are considered at a time when issues of race, multiculture, and racialization inside the prison have been somewhat neglected. Recognising also the significance of religion, age, masculinity, national and local identifications, it considers how multiple identities configure social interactions among prisoners in late modern prisoner society. Using rich empirical material drawn from extensive qualitative research in Rochester Young Offenders' Institution and Maidstone prison, the negotiation and tensions of ‘doing multiculturalism’ in prison form the central part of this book. Prisoners' vivid accounts of economically and socially marginalised lives outside, some in multicultural, some in monocultural settings, provides a backdrop to the interior world of the prison where ethnicity shapes social relations but in a contingent fashion. Ethnic, faith, and masculine identities may be deeply invested in, disavowed, constituted through loose solidarities based on 'postcode identities', even providing a means for cultural hybridity in prison cultures, yet they can also act as a familiar fault line creating wary, unstable, and antagonistic relations among prisoners. The Multicultural Prison provides a unique insight into how race is written into prison social relations using stories from both white and minority ethnic prisoners. It considers challenging issues of discrimination, inequality, entitlement, and preferential treatment from the perspective of diverse groups of prisoners.
In search of safety Owen, Barbara; Wells, James; Pollock, Joycelyn
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In Search of Safetytakes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the ...root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women's pathways to prison. Women must negotiate these inequities by developing forms of prison capital-social, human, cultural, emotional, and economic-to ensure their safety while inside. The authors also analyze how conflict and subsequent violence result from human-rights violations inside the prison that occur within the gendered context of substandard prison conditions, inequalities of capital among those imprisoned, and relationships with correctional staff.In Search of Safetyproposes a way forward-the implementation of international human-rights standards for U.S. prisons.
Death and redemption Barnes, Steven A
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Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet ...authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In this provocative book, Steven Barnes argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed "reeducated" through brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more who "failed" never got out alive.
Jiang discusses her zine More Than This: Meditations on Abolition, Presence, and Staying Soft, which dwells on the roles that presence and experimentation play in abolition and transformative ...justice. The zine is anchored by the two quotes which appear on page two: Ruth Wilson Gilmore's assertion that "abolition is about presence, not absence" and Mariame Kaba's framing of abolition as "building a million different little experiments." She notes that she wanted to convey through this zine there is nothing natural or inevitable about the expansion of prisons across the American landscape--and that their contingency provides an opening toward transformation. The space the prison takes up could have been (indeed, can be) filled instead with places which support and sustain communities.
The connections, convergences and partial differences between the political genealogies of these struggles within and against the carceral system that took place in many countries between the late ...1960s and the mid-1970s have been only marginally discussed in current abolitionist debates. Here, Tazzioli focuses specifically on the interconnected political genealogies of the prison revolts in the US and in France, and on the partially different angles of attack and claims they mobilized, bearing in mind that such struggles took place in a larger world context of prison uprisings. The circulation of knowledge and anti-prison struggles generates what the historian Julius Scott has defined as a "common wind"; that is, a shared political lexicon and ground of tactics, even if, in many cases, these connections and reverberations were not deliberately established nor consciously thematized within the movements themselves.
Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual behaviour traditionally associated with Ottoman (or ‘Turkish’) prisons, Kent F. Schull argues that these places were sites ...of immense reform and contestation during the 19th century. He shows that they were key components for Ottoman nation-state construction and acted as 'microcosms of modernity' for broader imperial transformation. It was within the walls of these prisons that many of the pressing questions of Ottoman modernity were worked out, such as administrative centralisation, the rationalisation of Islamic criminal law and punishment, issues of gender and childhood, prisoner rehabilitation, bureaucratic professionalisation, identity and social engineering. Juxtaposing state-mandated reform with the reality of prison life, the author investigates how these reforms affected the lives of local prison officials and inmates.
Palabras clave Prosopografía; Franquismo; Represión; Mujeres; Prisiones; Víctimas Abstract In this article we present the conclusions of our research about the mortal repression against the women ...during the first years of the francoism. In this way, we have been able to obtain a clear image of the socio economic characteristics of those victims, and also of the prison policy of the francoist dictatorship, that not only deprived these people of their liberty, but also forced them to live in unfortunate conditions that sometimes caused their death. En el cementerio de Derio de la capital vizcaína fueron ejecutadas 11 mujeres, dentro de los más de 500 fusilamientos que allí se produjeron. Lo mismo se puede afirmar sobre las fuentes extraídas del libro de bajas del Hospital de Basurto, en Bilbao, o del Archivo General de la Administración de Madrid; fuentes primarias que han permitido completar los espacios en blanco de los expedientes penitenciarios.
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