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Introduction -- Life in prison: Journal of a prisoner / David Lightner. Surviving rape in prison / Michael J. Carlson. A suicide in prison / Jens Soering. Inside Canada's Federal Prison for Women / Ann Hanson -- Prison guards, staff, and volunteers: The joys of teaching in jail / Lynn Olcott. Correction officers can make a difference / C. Shawn Sapriken. A day in the life of a prison guard in training / Ted Conover. The rewarding work of a prison activist / Jackie Katounas. Volunteering at a woman's prison / Lauren Rooker -- Prisoners' family members: Mother's Day in prison / Amanda Coyne. Coping with a father in prison / Ronnie O'Sullivan, as interviewed by Lucy Keenan. Reflections by a son of two inmates / Chesa Boudin

Scholarship on prison masculinities to date has primarily centered on the most revered, dominant, or hegemonic forms, with little attention to how subordinated prisoners negotiate masculinities at the bottom of prisoner hierarchies. This article, drawing from a wider qualitative study on "revolving door" imprisonment, charts the shift from normative to subordinate masculinity for a group of men housed in a segregated Vulnerable Prisoner Unit (VPU) in an English prison. I show how these men, influenced by their previous prison status and criminal history, adopted different—more costly and high-risk—situationally adaptive strategies in negotiating their masculinities at the bottom of prison hierarchies. Exploring their subordinated prison identities reveals the dynamic, relational, fragile, and spatial elements of their masculinities. I conclude by suggesting that a greater focus on subordinated carceral masculinities adds a much-needed divergence from the preoccupation with hegemonic or dominant prison masculinities. This divergence offers researchers a new opportunity to shape and to inform policy debates on how, in extreme environments like the prison, alternative ways of "being a man" might be opened up to those who have suffered at the most brutal end of prison hierarchies.

This collection is the kick-start to the kind of important global discussion that is needed. Frank J. Porporino, Criminal Justice Consultant; ICPA Group Chair, Research and Development Network This outstanding collection shines the spotlight on the most overlooked, but surely most important professionals in the correctional equation. Shadd Maruna, Professor of Criminology; author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild their Lives This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights NGO sector, to explore the work and role of prison officers around the world. Each chapter offers a distinctive perspective on the work of prison officers within localised socio-economic and criminal justice contexts, to provide a unique overview and insight into the realities and complexities of the role through accessible scholarly interpretations of their work. The aim of the book is to advance knowledge and understanding of the crucial role that prison officers occupy within carceral systems. The collection has widespread applicability with relevance beyond academia into criminal justice practice and policy internationally. Helen Arnold is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of East Anglia, UK. Matthew Maycock is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University, Australia. Rosemary Ricciardelli is Professor and Research Chair in Safety, Security, and Wellness at the Fisheries and Marine Institute at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

"Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks provides an innovative exploration of U.S.-based prison cookbooks using a narrative criminological approach. The book relies on the voices of prison cookbook authors to argue that cookbook narratives are a form of communication with the free world. Further, the book undertakes thematic analyses of prison cookery and narratives to illuminate the intersections of incarceration with abolition, gender, literacy, and dehumanization. The reader is introduced to the power and symbolism of cell made food, as well as the agency and resourcefulness of those who cook, bake, and write about food behind bars. Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks is of interest to instructors of courses covering the sociology of food, criminology, human geography, and anthropology. The book is also appropriate for prison and probation services, health organizations, and anyone engaged in the criminal-legal system, abolition movements, or social reform"--

This paper finds qualified support for the use of Skarbek's (2011, 2014) governance theory to understand the emergence of prison gang-like groups in Kyrgyzstan, Northern Ireland and Brazil. However, Skarbek's (2011, 2014) governance theory has little to say about how many prison gangs emerge and how they organise comparatively outside the US context. This paper argues that variation in the number of gangs and their monopolization of informal governance can only be explained by considering importation and deprivation theories alongside governance theories. These theories factor in variation in prison environments and pre-existing societal divisions imported into prison, which affect the costs on information transmission and incentives for gang expansion. In particular, the paper pays particular attention to the wider role social and political processes play in influencing whether monopoly power by prison gangs is supported and legitimized or not.

Our study tried to return and analyse 20 biographical stories of imprisoned minors, in minor neighbourhoods of two arrest houses and a prison centre. The data collected allowed us to shift the eye, from a question about the 'passing to act' and the 'sense of punishment', to an analysis of biographic reports to prison and the institutional functioning of juvenile neighbourhoods, the exercise of power within them, and how to deal with them as a detainee. The methodological framework provides data on the ordinary, banal and daily experience of detainees, both from a biographical and institutional point of view. In this context, like our previous work at the stopping house [1], the 'miners' district was seized as a crossing point, a point to which individual destinies converge. This point of passage is not meaningless for the actor; as a specific episode of existence, detention forces the locked actor to 'biographical work', during which past, present and future experiences are receding, and where self-thinking is to be redefined. [1] Chantraine G., 2004, Beyond walls. Trajectories and experiments at the stopping house, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France-le Monde. ; International audience ; Our study tried to return and analyse 20 biographical stories of imprisoned minors, in minor neighbourhoods of two arrest houses and a prison centre. The data collected allowed us to shift the eye, from a question about the 'passing to act' and the 'sense of punishment', to an analysis of biographic reports to prison and the institutional functioning of juvenile neighbourhoods, the exercise of power within them, and how to deal with them as a detainee. The methodological framework provides data on the ordinary, banal and daily experience of detainees, both from a biographical and institutional point of view. In this context, like our previous work at the stopping house [1], the 'miners' district was seized as a crossing point, a point to which individual destinies converge. This point of passage is not meaningless for the ...