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... This chapter describes Bruno’s attempt to escape the Vila de Dois Rios prison on the island of Ilha Grande. It describes conditions in the prison in the months prior to it being shut down in 1994. The chapter also discusses the conditions that led to the construction of new, maximum-security...

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... This chapter relates Bruno’s initial experiences of being in a navy jail, from where he is transferred to two different civilian prisons. Through his narrative, Bruno describes in detail the horrific prison conditions, the brutality of the prison guards, and the ways in which prison-based gangs...

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..., and the relationship between the leadership and the prison administration. The chapter also discusses the history of penal institutions on the island. Ilha Grande Devil’s Cauldron Comando Vermelho Terceiro Comando prison conditions ...

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... in the 1990s and the ethos of austerity informed penal policies, conjugal visits became a target for a vengeful public. Despite opposition from prisoners, their families, and corrections professionals, longer sentences and fewer opportunities for release were followed by harsher prison conditions. As a war...

..., and corrections professionals, longer sentences and fewer opportunities for release were followed by harsher prison conditions. As a war on crime became a war on prisoners, conjugal visits were eliminated. conjugal visits penal harm movement prisoner organizing “country club prisons” ...

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... This chapter investigates the contemporary political, economic, and social conditions that are shaping emerging social movements, including trans resistance. It introduces the term “neoliberalism” to describe these conditions. It examines how social movements have conservatized in recent decades...

... This chapter introduces Gramsci as a thinker and suggests why his approach might be fruitful for the analysis of narratives of inequality. It explains the conditions under which his prison notebooks were written and discusses their character as texts, and considers the very different assessments...

... of the autonomous subject in shaping these attitudes. Using a narrative ethnography, this chapter seeks to allow the stories of women political prisoners to be heard in context of a complex constellation of social and political conditions, with their memories and embodied histories intermingled in their way...

... Because Fernando de Noronha gathered slave, free civilian, and military convicts from across Brazil, it offers a unique perspective on the significance of civil condition and color in imperial penology. The prosecution of slave crime has received attention in regional studies, but few follow...

... Brazilians had long used Fernando de Noronha’s convict society as a foil to comprehend and define mainland social norms and the meanings of freedom. The Brazilian state’s need for cheap labor for public works, its lack of prison capacity, and the expense of maintaining prisoners separated...