Prison Life : Pain, Resistance, and Purpose / Ian O'Donnell.
O'Donnell, Ian, author.
2023
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Title Prison Life : Pain, Resistance, and Purpose / Ian O'Donnell.
Author O'Donnell, Ian, author.
ISBN 9781479816187
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479816187.001.0001
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
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Description 1 online resource : 49 b/w illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9781479816187.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.6
Summary How prisons around the world shape the social lives of their inhabitantsPrison Life offers a fresh appreciation of how people in prison organize their lives, drawing on case studies from Africa, Europe and the US. The book describes how order is maintained, how power is exercised, how days are spent, and how meaning is found in a variety of environments that all have the same function - incarceration - but discharge it very differently. It is based on an unusually diverse range of sources including photographs, drawings, court cases, official reports, memoirs, and site visits.Ian O'Donnell contrasts the soul-destroying isolation of the federal supermax in Florence, Colorado with the crowded conviviality of an Ethiopian prison where men and women cook their own meals, seek opportunities to generate an income, elect a leadership team, and live according to a code of conduct that they devised and enforce. He explores life on wings controlled by the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland's H Blocks, where men who saw the actions that led to their incarceration as politically-motivated moved as one, in perpetual defiance of the authorities. He shows how prisoners in Texas took to the courts to overthrow a regime that allowed their routine subjugation by violent men known as building tenders, who had been selected by staff to supervise and discipline their peers.In each case study O'Donnell presents the life story of a man who was molded by, and in return molded, the institution that held him. This ensures that his reflections on law and policy as well as on theory and practice never lose sight of the human angle. Imprisonment is about pain after all, and pain is personal.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1 Twisting the Penal Kaleidoscope
2 H Blocks, Northern Ireland
3 Eastham Unit, Texas
4 Isir Bet, Ethiopia
5 ADX Florence, Colorado
6 Carceral Contours
Acknowledgments
References
Index
About the Author

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